'Children's Books' Category
Favorite Paint Book — Little Girls
This is one of my very favorite vintage paint/coloring books — I love the subject and the style of the drawings by Mary Alice Stoddard. The best pictures are of boys and girls doing everyday activities — like quilting! Because there are 20 girls and 20 boys, you could make two darling little [...]
A to Z by Peter Mabie – 1929
This is one of the best alphabet books I’ve ever seen — a 1929 Art Deco ABC book by the fabulous Peter Mabie. I don’t own this one (it’s prohibitively expensive), but over the past year I have slowly managed to find photos of the inside pages on library and auction sites. Because [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Happy New Year!
My Paint Book
Samuel Lowe Company, 1941
(I added the “Happy New Year” text)Happy Thanksgiving!
Animal Friends
Merrill Publishing, 1939Vintage Mother Goose Paint Book Pages
These are pages from a late 1930s paint book. The 128 pages appear to be drawn by several illustrators, which was not usual in these very old coloring books. I think these Mother Goose pages have a unique and interesting style. Of course, I was also thinking they would make wonderful quilt blocks, [...]
Remembering Our Veterans
Saalfield Publishing, 1944
Happy Halloween!
Big Big Paint Book
Whitman Publishing, 1936John Martin’s Book – October, 1926
I love everything about these old magazines — the stories, illustrations and advertisements are all charming. 40¢ seems expensive for 1926, but they are pretty wonderful — more like a soft-bound book than a magazine. This one is just a little larger than a National Geographic magazine — my copies from the 1930s are larger [...]
1942 Animal Paint Book – Part 8
This is the final group of the Animal Paint Book images.
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