I’m not sure, but it seems to me that many children today cannot recite nursery rhymes. This is certainly true at the elementary school where I work, but since more than half of our students are Asian, their parents may not be familiar with the whole Mother Goose thing. Maybe the rhymes are thought to…
Here is a the next group of these nursery rhyme illustrations which includes a sweet rhyme that is a little more obscure. I LOVE YOU WELL I love you well, my little brother, And you are fond of me; Let us be kind to one another As brothers ought to be. You shall learn to…
As many of my friends know, I am a big fan of Lois Lenski. My son, Elliott, loved the Mr. Small books when he was little — something about the simple stories and simplistic (but adorable) illustrations is just so appealing. Of course, one of the reasons I like her drawings is because they can…
Isn’t this just the best cover ever — a huge garden filled with gorgeous hollyhocks, foxgloves and other flowers I can’t identify. It’s rare to see a soft cover book with a wrap-around cover illustration like this, and I am pretty happy with my work on the image repairing the gap where the covers had…
My Birthday! Big Big Paint Book Whitman Publishing, 1936 I’m sure my cake will be just as pretty, but my mine’s going to need 58 additional candles 🙂
I suppose these are not technically endpapers (and really just the inside covers), since this book is a soft cover wrap. The artist is Elizabeth Colborne. Wouldn’t these pictures be wonderful done in redwork — or bluework? Of course, I see them in a quilt, with the bookplate changed to read: This Quilt Belongs To…
Sadly, this is the end of the Lenski alphabet letters. However, I have a special treat for tomorrow. There are wonderful endpapers in this book by a different illustrator which I will post tomorrow.
The facing pages in this book are either all color or all black and white. There are usually two letters on each page, but occasionally there are three.
This week I want to share with you this wonderful ABC book published in 1922 by Platt and Munk. This is one of the first books illustrated by Lois Lenski, and it is a little different in style compared to her later books. Some of the pictures are in color, and some are black and…
This is the last of the 12 Alice in Wonderland pages. I wish this small book had one more page, so I could set it with alternate blocks. What do you think about stitching the cover as a block? I could stitch the title and the drawing (the style is a little different, so not…
Barbara at Oodles and Oodles recently wrote about her newly renovated bluebird houses. Here’s one of her photos where you can see a potential new resident. When I read about her bluebirds, I remembered I had a couple of cute birdhouse pages somewhere in my vintage coloring book collection — it just took me a…
These blocks are going to be a nice project to work on over the summer — a little similar to the ABC blocks in that they are very detailed and stitched with one color. Because I have two months off each summer, I try to work on Christmas presents for my family, but I never…