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The subject of the paper is the changing visual language of the illustrations in Čenkovej deti [Čenková’s Children] by Fraňo Kráľ (1932). After 1948, the book was transformed into a paradigmatic story reflecting social injustice and became compulsory reading for primary-school children. This necessitated a number of artistic solutions in the form of illustration sets interpreting and canonising the narrative. By means of a comparison of Josef Rybák’s and Štefan Cpin’s illustrative approaches, the study reveals the essential difference in their conveyance of content in two different historical situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]