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The drawings are Schwartz's, coloured by Joel Stewart (who illustrated [[''Jabberwocky]] '' among other things), and they are truly remarkable: imagine a cross between Maurice Sendak and Lewis Carroll, with a sprinkling of Max Ernst, add a lot of greeny blues and yellowy greens and you will get a vague idea. The Sea Monster is a particularly wonderful creation, both awesomely impressive and totally ridiculous, but the whole underwater world is evoked in a few strokes of caricature-like drawings, a few washed out splashes of colour, a mature and artistically coherent image which appeals to children's sense of humour, mystery and adventure (is there a merman on the way to the Deep Sea?) and doesn't patronise them at all. Oh, and the tyger, sorry, tiger is a thing from a different world altogether, a Victorian naturalist drawing, with each hair rendered perfectly: you could indeed, imagine it glowing in the dark.