Editing Elsa Beskow (section)

== Career ==
In 1894 Beskow started to contribute to the children's magazine ''Jultomten''. She ultimately began publishing her own books, doing both illustration and text. Overall, she would publish some forty books with her own text and images. 

Beskow frequently combined reality with elements from the fairy tale world. Children meet elves or goblins, and farm animals talk with people. Central themes were the relationships between children and adults and children's independent initiative. Her work "depicted a happy home atmosphere in the Swedish countryside of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries."<ref name="credoref">{{Cite web|url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/kidlit/beskow_elsa_maartman/0|title=Elsa Beskow|website=Credo}}</ref>

Beskow became one of the most well known of all Swedish children's book artists. Many of her books became classics and are continually reprinted.<ref>{{cite book | last = Ahlgren| first =Stig | author-link = Stig Ahlgren | title =Insnöad: Läsning i blandade ämnen | publisher = [[Rabén & Sjögren]] | year = 1977| location =Ystad | isbn = 9789129479195| page =138 }}</ref> Beskow also illustrated ABC books and songbooks for Swedish schools. Her book pages are often framed by decorative framework of the [[Art Nouveau]] style.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/beskow.htm |title=Elsa Beskow |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri |last=Liukkonen |publisher=[[Kuusankoski]] Public Library |location=Finland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100727173040/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/beskow.htm |archive-date=27 July 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Beskow received "international recognition for simple, cheerful stories and outstanding illustrations."<ref name="credoref" />