Known for her cute children draws, Mabel Lucie Attwel was an illustrator from the early 1900s. She completed her studies at  Saint Martin’s School of Art, and  at some point she created her own trade style, characterised by rotund cuddly infants, which was highly successful. These sweet illustrations seem to based on her daughter and end up everywhere: cards, calendars, nursery equipment, pictures and books.

Mabel Lucie Attwell’s illustrated edition of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was first published in 1911. Recently, in 1916,  Macmillan, the original Alice publishers, printed  a new lovely hardback gift edition.