The complete online text of The House That Jack Built by Randolph Caldecott.

The Caldecott Medal, bestowed annually since 1938 upon the "most distinguished American picture book for children in the United States," has helped make Randolph Caldecott's name synonymous with children's book illustrations of excellence. Frederick G. M...

Often called the father of the picture book, Randolph Caldecott (1846-1886)is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential illustrators in the field of children's literature. An English artist who illustrated picture books, fiction, verse, and fa...

Randolph Caldecott is known as the father of the modern picture book and, an essayist for the Encyclopedia of World Biography Supplement declared, "as one of the greatest and most influential illustrators in the field of c hildren's literature." Caldecot...

South Africa Shortly after the war, my Uncle Jack set up a conservation project at a time when the word ecology would have got you nothing more than a blank stare. Jack's chief claim to military fame was that he had got...

The house that Jack and Jackie built GRACE AND POWER: THE PRIVATE WORLD OF THE KENNEDY WHITE HOUSE by Sally Bedell Smith Random House, £25, pp. 496, ISBN 1845130030 Within just a week of the tragic assassination in Dallas, the widowed Jackie Kennedy...