IN the pleasant green Garden
We sat down to tea;
"Do you take sugar?" and
"Do you take milk?"
She'd got a new gown on–
A smart one of silk.
We all were so happy
As happy could be,
On that bright Summer's day
When she asked us to tea.
The Tea Party by Kate Greenaway • 45 poems by Kate GreenawayEdit
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Kate Greenaway was one of few prolific, gifted and recognized women children's book authors/illustrators in the latter half of the 19th Century. The essence of Victorian childhood is exhibited in the idealized children of Greenaway’s work. Her dreamy almost melancholy characters prance through the English countryside frilly smocks, mob caps and sunbonnets unaware of time or place.
She's one of the most recognized children's book illustrators of all time. The images of the children she created have enchanted people worldwide for over 100 years. Kate's illustrations evoke the yesteryear of gentler and slower times we all yearn for. Kate Greenaway also wrote the rhymes for her own books Her deep love of children is apparent in those poems and rhymes.