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

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

otto























Otto and the Magic Potatoes by William Pène du Bois, The Viking Press, NY, 1970 (binding illustration)

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

mother mother


from MOTHER MOTHER I FEEL SICK SEND FOR THE DOCTOR QUICK QUICK QUICK by Remy Charlip and Burton Supree, Parents' Magazine Press, 1966

Sunday, August 26, 2012

let's

from Arm in Arm (A Collection of Connections, Endless Tales, Reiterations, and other Echolalia) by Remy Charlip, Parents' Magazine Press, 1969

previously here and here

Friday, August 24, 2012

fortunately/unfortunately
























Fortunately by Remy Charlip, 1964 (1966 Scholastic edition)
What Good Luck! What Bad Luck!, by Remy Charlip, 1969 (Scholastic) (same book with change of title/text. subsequent editions returned to original title/text.)

Thursday, August 23, 2012

remy charlip...

A Day of Summer by Betty Miles, illustrated by Remy Charlip, 1960
David's Little Indian by Margaret Wise Brown,illustrated by Remy Charlip,1956
Four Fur Feet by Margaret Wise Brown,illustrated by Remy Charlip,1961
What is the World? by Betty Miles, illustrated by Remy Charlip, 1958 (back cover)
A Day of Winter by Betty Miles, illustrated by Remy Charlip, 1961
The Dead Bird by Margaret Wise Brown,illustrated by Remy Charlip,1958
A Day of Summer by Betty Miles, illustrated by Remy Charlip, 1960

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

the day it didn't snow and the day it did.



from David's Little Indian by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Remy Charlip, Young Scott Books, NY, 1956

Thursday, July 12, 2012

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Mu Chi went to look at the wall.
It was a beautiful wall...
The pure white plaster was as smooth as porcelain.
It stretched without a break, a hole, a window, or a door to mar it for one hundred feet.
And it was as high as a very tall pine tree.
Mu Chi caught his breath....A wall to dream of! 
from The Master Swordsman & The Magic Doorway: Two Legends from Ancient China retold by Alice Provensen, Simon & Schuster, 2001

Wednesday, June 27, 2012

Oh, then, then, then

Four Fur Feet by Margaret Wise Brown, designed by Bill Martin Jr.
from Sounds of a Powwow by Bill Martin Jr. in collaboraton with Peggy Brogan, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc., 1974 (1970)---a compilation of children's stories, retold or re-illustrated---some previously published as they appear here. contributions by Remy Charlip, Andre Francois, Jay Ells, Eric Carle...
(see also)

Thursday, June 14, 2012

talking book

'Scott, Foresman First Talking Storybook Box'---binding illustration detail from Over In The Meadow by John Langstaff, Harcourt, Brace/Scott, Foresman, 1957

Monday, May 28, 2012

Nature Frieze

















Dick Bruna's Nature Frieze, Methuen, 1978 (1979)---folder with 4 accordion fold-outs, each approx. 45inches long.

Thursday, May 10, 2012

^



















The Stump Book, Vancouver Environment Education Project, UBC, in co-operation with the British Columbia Forest Service, 1975

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

I did not take my eyes off it, yet my fancy drew pictures of blooming life and happiness.




















Nikolenka's Childhood: An edition for young readers, Leo Tolstoy, illus. by Maurice Sendak, 1963
I'll Be You and You Be Me, Ruth Krauss, illus. by Maurice Sendak, 1954
Zlateth the Goat, Isaac Bashevis Singer, illus. by Maurice Sendak, 1966
The Bat-Poet, Randall Jarrell, illus. by Maurice Sendak, 1964
Zlateth the Goat, Isaac Bashevis Singer, illus. by Maurice Sendak, 1966
Seven Little Monsters, Maurice Sendak, 1977
The Animal Family, Randall Jarrell, illus. by Maurice Sendak, 1965
Higglety Pigglety Pop!, Or: There Must Be More to Life, Maurice Sendak, 1967

Maurice Sendak























1928-2012

Thursday, May 3, 2012

.:.'.*..

(back cover) Peter and the Big Ballon, Benefic Press, 1959 (1965)

Thursday, April 26, 2012

The Moon Turns, Too

Fun with Astronomy by Mae and Ira Freeman, Scholastic 1953 (1968)

Thursday, April 19, 2012

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The Rain Puddle by Adelaide Holl, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin, William Morrow, 1965

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

singing games

(back cover) Singing Games for Children by Alice P. Hamlin & Margaret G. Guessford, illustrations by L. Ward Webber, The Willis Music Company, 1941

Saturday, April 7, 2012

flatland

Life in Flatland (adapted from Flatland)
Childcraft Volume 13: Mathemagic, World Book, 1964 (1980)

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(binding illustration) The Easter Egg Artists by Adrienne Adams, Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1976

Sunday, April 1, 2012

o

In Shadowland by Mitsumasa Anno, Orchard Books, NY, 1988 (originally published 1976)