Kathleen Mary Lines (24 September 1902 – 24 December 1988) was a book critic, editor,

anthologist In book publishing, an anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler; it may be a collection of plays, poems, short stories, songs or excerpts by different authors. In genre fiction, the term ''anthology'' typically catego ...

and librarian from Canada.Kathleen Lines
Oxford Encyclopedia of Children's Literature An expert on

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, she wrote, compiled, and edited ''Four to Fourteen'' (1950) for the National Book League. She also wrote the introduction to the second edition of F. J. Harvey Darton's ''Children's Books in England'' (1958) and edited a series of illustrated

fairy tale A fairy tale (alternative names include fairytale, fairy story, magic tale, or wonder tale) is a short story that belongs to the folklore genre. Such stories typically feature magic (paranormal), magic, incantation, enchantments, and mythical ...

picture book A picture book combines visual and verbal narratives in a book format, most often aimed at young children. With the narrative told primarily through text, they are distinct from comics, which do so primarily through sequential images. The images ...

s. Artists for the picture books included

Edward Ardizzone Edward Jeffrey Irving Ardizzone, (16 October 1900 – 8 November 1979), who sometimes signed his work "DIZ", was an English painter, print-maker and war artist, and the author and illustrator of books, many of them for children. For ''Tim All ...

for the ''

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''. Lines was also the general editor of the ''Bodley Head Monographs'' and edited ''Lavender's Blue'' (1954), a selection of classic

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s illustrated by Harold Jones. The book won a Carnegie special commendation.

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