Showing posts with label children's books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children's books. Show all posts

Monday, March 26, 2012

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I Am a Book by Roger Hargreaves, Hodder & Stoughton, 1984

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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...another library sale...

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

circle square

from So Many Circles, So Many Squares by Tana Hoban, Greenwillow Books, NY, 1998

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

a quiet noise

details from The Quiet Noisy Book by Magaret Wise Brown,illustrated by Leonard Weisgard. Harper and Collins, 1950.
previously and also

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

make a bigger puddle/make a smaller worm

from The Magic Mirror Book (originally titled Make a Bigger Puddle, Make a Smaller Worm), devised and illustrated by Marion Walter, Scholastic, 1971
Some awkward illustrated-by-the-author greatness (see also Daniel Pinkwater or Munro Leaf)

Monday, February 13, 2012

log house

(inside front and back cover of) The Little Log House, illustrated by M. Mezheninov, translated by Irina Zheleznova, Malysh Publishers, Moscow, 1978

Sunday, February 12, 2012

205

Due Date: Never

Saturday, February 4, 2012

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from Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, 1938, 1950, and 1984 editions, and an old collage-drawing of mine (from here), 2007

Friday, February 3, 2012

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from Childcraft: Look and Learn Volume 12, World Book, 1964 (1980)

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Wednesday, January 18, 2012

The Dead Bird

from The Dead Bird by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Remy Charlip, Young Scott Books, NY, 1958 (text 1938)

also here...and all previous Remy Charlip here.

Monday, January 16, 2012

nothing was everywhere

from God Made The World by Gerald Pottebaum, illustrated by Robert Strobridge, Little People's Paperback, The Seabury Press, NY, 1963/1979
previously and related

and also maybe.

Thursday, January 12, 2012

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from Knowabout Length by Henry Pluckrose, photographs by Chris Fairclough, Franklin Watts, 1988

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

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(detail from) The Animal Fair by Alice and Martin Provensen, Golden Press, NY, 1973

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

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drawings in the endpapers of That's What Friends Are For by Florence Parry Heide & Sylvia Worth Van Clief, Four Winds Press, 1968

Monday, November 21, 2011

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from The Muffin Fiend by Daniel Pinkwater, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, NY, 1986

Friday, November 11, 2011

wand(a)

from Magic Wanda's Dynamite Magic Book by Chip Lovitt, photographs by Peter Vadnai, Scholastic Books, 1976

Thursday, November 10, 2011

balloons, explosion, skirt, spear

more from The Young Readers Press First Dictionary by John Trevaskis & Robin Hyman, illustrated by John Seares Riley, Young Readers Press, NY, 1967 (1973)