Sun Ra, c. 1960's

cover by Harry Ford, 1958

Remy Charlip: Where Is Everybody?

Selected pages from:

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.

More Charlip here

miscellaneous clippings, unknown sources

Flieg Vogel Fliege by Roedelius, 1982

sky 078

(cover by Rosa Roedelius)

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

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.

Les Enfants Terribles by Jean Cocteau, Le Livre de Poche, Paris (no date)

cover drawing by Jean Cocteau

HINDI 649 .65 908

From Egg-Carton Zoo by Rudi Haas and Hans Bloom, Oxford University Press, 1986

Fredun Shapur: First Steps In Reading

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.

More Fredun Shapur here

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

see D.R. also here.

found clipping, source unknown

What Spot? by Crosby Bonsall, Harper & Row, NY, 1963

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."

The Undiscovered Self by Carl Jung, Mentor, 1958 (cover by Robert Jonas)

From Dear World, Edited by Richard and Helen Exley, Methuen, 1978

(Carole, age 10)

found on public bulletin board, 2003

Robert Filliou: Mister Blue From Day-to-Day

Mister Blue From Day-to-Day by Robert Filliou, Edition Lebeer Hossman, Brussels, 1983

Filliou wrote this book for his two children in 1963, but it wasn't printed until 1983 (now for his granddaughter). Illustrated by Dieter Roth, Robert Filliou, Stefan Wewerka, Bjorn Roth, Jan Voss, Emil Schult, and Andre Thomkins. English and German text. Edition of 1000 copies.

One very, very hot Wednesday afternoon, Mister Blue walked fully clothed into the sea, lied carefully on his back, and went to sleep, his hat over his face. Actually, he hadn't meant to fall asleep. Wednesday is the day of the week when Mister Blue cures small children of the fear of water, and he had walked into the sea to teach example.
And soon he began to dream...

back cover of Our Daddy is a Lumberman by Wally Don Kennedy, Kitty Kat, Fresno CA, 1960

Embellished copy of The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams, Doubleday, NY (no date)