Talk:Children's book illustration

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Did you know... that children's book illustration techniques include photography?

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The result was: promoted by Lightburst talk 23:50, 9 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Illustration of Peter Rabbit eating radishes, from The Tale of Peter Rabbit (1901) by British author and illustrator Beatrix Potter

... that modern children's book illustration techniques include photography? Source: https://moonflea.github.io/picturing-childhood/pictur.htm
ALT2 ... that the first children's book illustrations were primarily religious texts, grammar books, and works about good behavior?
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Hyperbolic spiral
- Comment: Feel free to suggest more interesting hooks. I plan on expanding this more.

5x expanded by Piotrus (talk). Self-nominated at 10:09, 2 January 2024 (UTC). Post-promotion hook changes for this nom will be logged at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Children's book illustration; consider watching this nomination, if it is successful, until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

General eligibility:
New enough:
Long enough:
Other problems:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing:
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems:

Hook eligibility:

Cited:
Interesting:
Other problems:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: The hook is good, image is clear (though caption is a bit long), this is good to go. I have also added an alt hook. Sahaib (talk) 19:22, 2 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]