wand(a)

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

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)

wood design

Creative Wood Design by Ernst Röttger, Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY/Otto Maier Verlag, Ravensburg, 1960 (first spotted here)

Summerhill

Neill & Summerhill: A Man and His Work (a pictorial study by John Walmsley), Penguin Educational Special, Penguin Books, 1969---The Summerhill School was founded by A.S. Neill in 1921. Ivor Cutler was once a teacher there.

I'm off again, but will be back to posting in a week or so. Bye for now.

himaa

3666 by Masanao Harayama (HIMAA), Nieves, Zurich, 2011 (edition of 100) (thanks to MML!)

house

October 2011

October 2010

October 2009

sky

from The Forecast Your Own Weather Book by Reuben A. Hornstein, McClelland & Stewart/Environment Canada and the Canadian Government Publishing Centre, Supply and Services Canada, 1980 (image uncredited)

door

from Family Fun: Things to make, do, and play by Susan Stranks, Barron's Educational Series, NY, 1979

*

from JUNIOR (The Canadian Red Cross Society magazine for school children), Vol.L, No.5 , Toronto, May 1971 (detail of removeable poster)

when you're tired and fall

How Does it Feel to be a Tree? by Flo Morse, illustrated by Clyde Watson, Parents' Magazine Press, NY, 1976

M.L.

Micah Lexier's exhibition Things Exist opens today at Birch Libralato, Toronto. Wish I could be there. "Things exist, we do not have to create them, we only have to grasp their relations." -Stéphane Mallarmé

(Micah and I have been working on a book together, to be published early next year. I hope to post more about that soon.)

alley, candle, rubbish, stripes

details from The Young Readers Press First Dictionary by John Trevaskis & Robin Hyman, illustrated by John Seares Riley, Young Readers Press, NY, 1967 (1973)---I'm looking for anything else John Seares Riley may have illustrated. Google has let me down so far.