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# Inside the Playground: a look at the illustrations
- URL: https://www.theholyfight.com/inside-the-playground/
- Published: 2026-11-07T13:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-07T13:00:00.000Z
- Description: Every chapter opens with a full-page illustration, 34 in all. Here are a few.
- Author: Sean Catlett

Every chapter of *Defense Against the Enemy's Devices* opens with a full-page illustration, 34 in all. Each one had to match the text exactly. Here are a few. (They're shown here in colour; the book prints them in black and white.)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9d/a8/9da85ce7-09aa-4057-8b24-f39a60014e68/content/images/2026/11/plate01_king-on-bridge.jpg)

The first thing Tommy sees: the King, smiling down from a rope bridge high above the forest path.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9d/a8/9da85ce7-09aa-4057-8b24-f39a60014e68/content/images/2026/11/plate05_destrier.jpg)

Clarence reins in Destrier, his warhorse, in the lesson on the armor of God.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9d/a8/9da85ce7-09aa-4057-8b24-f39a60014e68/content/images/2026/11/plate07_giants-hammock.jpg)

The whole class on the Giant's Hammock, high in the trees.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9d/a8/9da85ce7-09aa-4057-8b24-f39a60014e68/content/images/2026/11/plate09_come-here-boy.jpg)

"Come here, boy."

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/9d/a8/9da85ce7-09aa-4057-8b24-f39a60014e68/content/images/2026/11/plate17_grandfather-tortoise.jpg)

The Grandfather Tortoise, and the best slide in the Playground.

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