Recently BBC featured a few images in the upcoming exhibition of children’s poetry, nursery rhymes and song from 1603 to the present day. Curated by Children’s Laureate Michael Rosen, The British Library exhibits plenty of classics, including Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. For those of us living outside of London, now we too can see John Tenniel’s famous illustrations online at Sharing-Books. There are a total of 42 illustrations created in this 1865 version of the classic. One has only to view his Cheshire Cat on page 92 to see the predecessor to the Cheshire Cat in the Disney movie of 1951. And so the ancestry of a very famous cat was born.


Click here for more information about the exhibit at the British Library.