Deaf illustrator created beloved children’s classics
Leonard Leslie Brooke became one of England’s most celebrated children’s book illustrators despite a devastating setback: typhoid fever contracted while traveling in Italy left him permanently deaf as a young man. Born in Birkenhead in 1862, Brooke studied at the Royal Academy Schools and started his career working in oils. But his genius flo…
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