That sometimes happens with illustrators, unfortunately, if they miss little details in the text. Getting back to Narnia, which I mentioned in another thread, one of Pauline Baynes' illustrations for The Voyage of the Dawn Treader shows Caspian's cabin on board the ship, and there's a globe of the world on the desk there. Yet later in the book, we discover that Narnia's world is flat, and Caspian is amazed to hear that his companions from Earth come from a round world and he says he wishes he could visit one of those!Anita Bensoussane wrote: ↑21 Nov 2023, 14:42 I hope you enjoy Greenwild, Courtenay. It sweeps the reader into a magical world and is beautifully illustrated by Elisa Paganelli, though I did notice that one or two things the artist had drawn (fairly complex things, admittedly!) didn't quite tally with the text.
I also remember when I was in primary school, we had a talk from a local lady who'd had a children's mystery / adventure book published, and she told us a bit about the process it went through. One thing she remarked on was that the youngest of the children in the story — a boy who is the central character — wears glasses, and this is mentioned several times throughout the story (including on the first page, as I recall!), and his glasses play a significant role at one point in the plot. But the artist who was commissioned to do the illustrations didn't give this kid glasses in any of the pictures of him! I think the author didn't get a chance to comment on the illustrations before publication went ahead, or otherwise she would have had that changed.
At least none of that is nearly as bad as at least a couple of the Famous Five covers by Laura Ellen Anderson (for the 2017 editions), including Five Go Adventuring Again depicting the Five in a sunny bluebell wood when that's the story where it's winter and they get snowed in at Kirrin Cottage — or Five Go Down to the Sea, showing them building sandcastles on the beach when the story has them chasing drug smugglers using the secret "Wreckers' Way"!! I can only conclude that illustrator didn't actually read the books she was illustrating at all...