Tokar M. Images of heroes of Ukrainian children's literature in the book illustration of the second half of the XX – beginning of the XXI century.

The work outlines the main stages in the development of the image of the literary hero of the native children's classics, the dominant compositional techniques and figurative-and-stylistic solutions of the children's book illustration in the marked chronological period are revealed. The research has revealed significant features of the image of the literary hero of Ukrainian children's books from the 1950s to the newest period of the development of book illustration, which dates back to the 2000s. It has been proved that artistic-and-aesthetic peculiarities of children's book illustration are in close interaction with the main compositional techniques and figurative-and-stylistic solutions typical of the three main designated periods of development of Ukrainian book graphics in the segment of children's literature.