'Children's Books' Category

• August Blog Break

  I hope everyone has a wonderful August — I will be back in September.

  August 9th, 2010

• More Jolly Rhymes of Mother Goose — Lois Lenski, 1922

  This is the last of the Lenski nursery rhyme pictures, and there were a couple of rhymes here I didn’t know.
  This one is very sweet….
  Bossy-Cow, Bossy-Cow
  Bossy-cow, bossy.cow, where do you lie? In the green meadow under the sky.
  Billy-horse, billy-horse, where do you lie? Out in the stable with nobody nigh.
  Birdies bright, birdies sweet, where do [...]

  July 7th, 2010

• Happy 4th of July!

  Because I rarely buy new quilt fabric, I only recently discovered that this vintage book has been reproduced as a fabric panel for making a soft book or quilt (Red Rooster Fabrics), but their book doesn’t have this cute patriotic cover.

  Tiny Tots Object Book
  Whitman Publishing, 1942
  Illustrated by “C.E.J.”

  July 4th, 2010

• Happy Father’s Day, Gordon!

  Big Big Paint Book
  Whitman Publishing, 1948
  Eileen Fox Vaughan, Illustrator

  June 20th, 2010

• More Jolly Rhymes of Mother Goose – Lois Lenski, 1922

  I’m not sure, but it seems to me that many children today cannot recite nursery rhymes. This is certainly true at the elementary school where I work, but since more than half of our students are Asian, their parents may not be familiar with the whole Mother Goose thing. Maybe the rhymes are [...]

  June 19th, 2010

• More Jolly Rhymes of Mother Goose — Lois Lenski, 1922

  Here is a the next group of these nursery rhyme illustrations which includes  a sweet rhyme that is a little more obscure.
  I LOVE YOU WELL
  I love you well, my little brother, And you are fond of me; Let us be kind to one another As brothers ought to be. You shall learn to play with [...]

  June 11th, 2010

• Jolly Rhymes of Mother Goose — Lois Lenski, 1922

  As many of my friends know, I am a big fan of Lois Lenski. My son, Elliott, loved the Mr. Small books when he was little — something about the simple stories and simplistic (but adorable) illustrations is just so appealing. Of course, one of the reasons I like her drawings is because [...]

  June 5th, 2010

• First Steps in Art

  Isn’t this just the best cover ever — a huge garden filled with gorgeous hollyhocks, foxgloves and other flowers I can’t identify. It’s rare to see a soft cover book with a wrap-around cover illustration like this, and I am pretty happy with my work on the image repairing the gap where the covers [...]

  May 19th, 2010

• I realize tomorrow is Mother’s Day, but it is also…..

  My Birthday!
  Big Big Paint Book
  Whitman Publishing, 1936

  I’m sure my cake will be just as pretty, but my mine’s going to need 58 additional candles

  May 8th, 2010

• My Own ABC Book – Endpapers

  I suppose these are not technically endpapers (and really just the inside covers), since this book is a soft cover wrap. The artist is Elizabeth Colborne. Wouldn’t these pictures be wonderful done in redwork — or bluework? Of course, I see them in a quilt, with the bookplate changed to read:
  This Quilt [...]

  May 7th, 2010