D.Tanniel was convinced that absurd should entertain, but not scare; amaze and even bring up - and it does not matter whether it was with the help of animated playing-cards or chess-men.

D.Cruikshank, a caricaturist, also illustrated children's books. ("Merry ABC", 1836). In 1828 he published the first cartoon strip about Punch and Judy.

"He who draws is always more famous than he who writes".(R. Tepffer). This had happened with W. Bush. His drawings are remembered by children better than his poems. He worked out his own artistic manner illustrating humorous "horror stories" in "Munich Lubok". His first book "Jokes in Pictures" was published in 1864 and greatly influenced the next generations of artists.

By the middle of the XIXth century children's book illustration had become a part of culture. Comic theatrical and circus characters appeared on the pages of books for children. Thanks to caricaturists "children" humorous pictures give the readers the feeling of adventure; teach them to love fantasy. There are no better illustrations of Robinson Crusoe" and "Gulliver Travels" than those of J.-I. Granville. By the way, Granville was compelled to illustrate children's books, because political caricature, he specialized in, was banned in 1835.

Some children books were written as parodies. For example, "Nice Stories and Funny Pictures" by G. Hoffmann was created to mock children's books of that time full of dull morals. D. Lich and G. Beckett ridiculed school textbooks in "Comic History of England" and "Funny Latin Grammar" published in 1847. Many illustrators of late XIXth an early XXth century took their ideas for their works from caricature: R. Doyle worked for "Punch"; W. Trir began his career in "Simplitsissimus"; a German artist E. Kreidorf and an English artist W. Crein kept on the traditions of Granville. Early 1980s in Florence there was an exhibition devoted to the centennial of Pinoccio. Caricaturists did not get lost in the numerous illustrators of this popular book. Italian art researchers think of Mussino's Pinoccio a political caricature.