![]() ![]() Like this wrote Astrid Lindgren to Tove Jansson in 1960. “… this will be the children’s book of the century, and will live long after we are dead and buried.” Runnquist asked Jansson to illustrate another of Lewis Carroll’s books in 1965, namely Alice in Wonderland, and even though she at that time was busier than ever, she could not resist the temptation to accept the proposal. The proposal to illustrate the book came from the editor Åke Runnquist and it was the starting point of a meaningful collaboration and friendship. ![]() One of her most significant commissions was the making of the illustrations to Lewis Carroll’s The Hunting of the Snark in 1958. Tove Jansson was known world-wide as an author, illustrator, cartoonist and painter with an enormous production of her own, but she also illustrated the books of other appreciated authors. She wrote: ‘God bless you for Toffle!! But who will comfort Astrid if you don’t agree to the proposal I’m now going to make to you?’ ![]() The request came from the Swedish children’s book author Astrid Lindgren, who at the time was publisher at Rabén & Sjögren. In the year 1960, Tove Jansson was asked to make the illustrations for the new Swedish translation of J. ![]()
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