Don’t burst our bubble–It’s almost spring, isn’t it?

March 17th is widely celebrated as St. Patrick’s Day but it also happens to be the birthday of notable childrens’ book illustrator Kate Greenaway. Born in London in 1846, she studied art at various schools, such as the Heatherley School of Fine Art, and began her career in watercolors and cards. She was a contemporary or Walter Crane and Randolph Caldecott and good friend to Victorian art critic John Ruskin.

Smithsonian Libraries has collected some of Greenaway’s illustrations to help put put a spring in your step on a blustery March Day.

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