Kate Greenaway

Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children was Kate Greenaway's first children's picture book, composed of her own verses and illustrations. Selling over 100,000 copies, the toy book was a commercial success, helped launch Greenaway's career as a children's book illustrator and author in the late 19th …

Illustrations and poems by Wordsworth, Shakespeare, and other English poets accompany an alphabetical listing of 700 plants and flowers and their meanings.