Tove Jansson illustrated this for the Swedish edition of The Hobbit:
Brain Pickings has several illustrations from the British, Swedish, Japanese, and Russian editions. Mikhail Belomlinsky made this for the Russian edition printed in 1976:
Tove Jansson illustrated this for the Swedish edition of The Hobbit:
Brain Pickings has several illustrations from the British, Swedish, Japanese, and Russian editions. Mikhail Belomlinsky made this for the Russian edition printed in 1976:
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The Annotated Version of the Hobbit, in addition to the wealth of information in the footnotes and appendices, contains illustrations from editions worldwide. I found it the perfect edition for reading aloud to the kids, too.
Perfect because you show them the illustrations or do you use some of the annotations or both?
All of the above – it’s fun how the kids are immediately ready to argue with the different illustrations – “Bilbo does NOT look like that.”
Plus it’s a large-format binding, so pulling it off the shelf just makes them feel like something special is about to happen; you don’t get that with books on the Nook.