A poem by Edward Lear illustrated by Charles and Nicholas Santore

What is a Pip? And more, what is a Scroobious Pip? My guess, is when you love children and words so much that you invent new ones of the latter to amuse the firsts ones 🙂

Edward Lear was a boy in his heart even when he was an adult. He loved to play with words and colors to change them and combine them as no other before him. Lots will tell you that he has the father of literary nonsense and that he loved the absurd in any form. I would say that he was beyond all that. That he imagined a world for him and him alone early in his childhood, when he first started having epilepsy seisures. And that he continued to work at it and to make it more and more beautiful and rich, for him to be able to have a space where he would feel at home. And later in life he chose to share his world with others like him, with a heart and imagination wide open and unaltered.

Charles Santore has an imaginative mind and great talent in depicting reality and fantasy alike in a unique way. He found joy in illustrating some of the great classics in children’s literature. The work at Scroobious Pip wasn’t finish at the time of his passing, so his son Nicholas, an visual artist himself, felt that he was the one meant to complete his father work. So it came one of the most anticipated and beautiful albums of 2025, that already has great reviews. Enjoy!