This charming volume brings back into print some of the finest illustrated children's books from the Arts and Crafts Movement: Kate Greenaway's much-loved alphabet book, A Apple Pie, along with a selection of her illustrated nursery rhymes.Greenaway's drawings conjure up a never-never land of rural simplicity and innocence-an escape from the squalor of Victorian cities-that is as delightful now as it was when these gems of children's literature first appeared in the 1880s.

KATE GREENAWAY (1846-1901) was an English illustrator and watercolorist famous for her fanciful, humorous drawings of child life. Her work is housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Royal Academy, and other collections around the world.