High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Charles William James Keeping (22 September 1924 - 16 May 1988) was a British illustrator, children`s book author and lithographer. He first came to prominence with his illustrations for Rosemary Sutcliff`s historical novels for children, and he created more than twenty picture books. He won the Kate Greenaway Medal for outstanding work in children`s illustration twice: for Charley, Charlotte and the Golden Canary in 1967, and for an illustrated edition of Alfred Noyes`s poem The Highwayman in 1981. He illustrated The God Beneath the Sea, by Leon Garfield and Edward Blishen, which won the Carnegie Medal for children`s literature in 1970. He also illustrated the complete works of Charles Dickens for the Folio Society.