Where is Everybody? by Remy Charlip. (originally published by Young Scott, 1957) This is a Scholastic reprint from 1969. Probably my favourite first and last page of any children's book.
endpapers from New Basic Course in Pitman Shorthand, Sir Isaac Pitman (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, 1964
WHAT THINGS ARE MADE OF by Bertha Morris Parker (The Basic Science Education Series, University of Chicago) Row, Peterson and Co., 1944
Friday, March 12, 2010
Selections from The Twomey Collection, Winnipeg Art Gallery, 1972 (12 pages, staple bound)
Jerry Twomey was a botanist and geneticist who collected over 4000 pieces of Inuit sculpture in 20 years, beginning 1950. His collection was acquired by the Province of Manitoba and is housed in The Winnipeg Art Gallery.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau, Le Livre de Poche, Paris (no date)
cover drawing by Jean Cocteau
HINDI 649 .65 908
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
From Egg-Carton Zoo by Rudi Haas and Hans Bloom, Oxford University Press, 1986
The Christmas Tree (First Steps In Reading) by Kathleen Brooks, illustrated by Fredun Shapur, Benn, London,1966
Other books from this series include Blackie and the Wool, Spot and the Paint, and By The Pool, all from 1966. Unfortunately, the storytelling is uninspired, so I've only scanned the illustrations.
Gummibandbild (rubber-band picture) by Dieter Roth, 1961, pigment, nails and rubber bands on plywood. Photo: Adda Ragnarsdóttir and Karl Roth playing with a Gummibandbild.
From Roth Time: A Dieter Roth Retrospective, MOMA & Lars Müller, 2003
What Spot? by Crosby Bonsall, Harper & Row, NY, 1963
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Paper Collage by Robin Capon, Charles T. Branford Co., Newton, Mass, 1975
"...Here then is a book whose text and illustrations stimulatingly introduce amateurs and teachers to an art technique with the unusual combination of the virtues of simplicity, cheapness and individuality."