The second half of the nineteenth century was, famously, a golden age for children's literature-in Mexico as well as in North America and Europe.
Jos Guadalupe Posada (1851-1913) and Manuel Manilla (1839-1895) are the two leading icons of children's illustration in Mexico, and together they developed a huge body of engravings and illustrations for cheap, ephemeral, penny press collections of Mexican fairy tales.
In the early part of the last century, these fragile publications-once so ubiqu.
Posada & manilla: illustrations for mexican fairy tales, paperback/jose posada
