- This unashamed visual feast celebrates the best designed and illustrated picturebooks from around the world over the past one hundred years. Each book is a creation of genius and inventiveness, and their design and illustration represent such diverse trends as the Russian Constructivists, Italian Futurists, and Postwar Neo-romantics. They are also mirrors of their times reflecting social concerns from a child"s and family"s perspectives throughout the twentieth and into the twenty-first century. Fearlessly confronting the frontiers between a child"s picturebook and art, this is a collection of books that anyone with an interest in design, illustration, or simply children"s literature should know about.