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Ellen Raskin (March 13th, 1928 - August 8th, 1984) adapted and illustrated Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market and was published in 1970 by E.P Dutton & CO., Inc New York, first edition. With its audience directed towards children, each illustration takes up majority of each page in its vivid watercolours that attracts the attention of viewers. The poem itself is broken up into parts that are inermingled with the illustrations rather than having the poem in large, blocky format. Ellen Raskin has removed and edited portions of the poem's lines that discuss sex and violence to accommodate with 20th-century children being perfectly safe in this fairytale setting.There are illustrations found on every page. The storybook has been found in the children's section of libraries, published and the illustrations have been drawn in a way that has made the goblin men more animal-like and cartoonish, the sisters with long and lustrous hair. This is in relation to the Pre-Raphelite style of making sharp focuses and outlining her work - she mimics this style of artwork, it links with the notion of mass publication and directing the poem form adult audiences to children’s. 

Principle sources:  The Children's Rossetti in Christina Rossetti and Illustration