'Children’s Books' Category

• Happy Mother’s Day!

  

  The Headstart Book of Knowing & Naming, 1976 Kent Salisbury, Illustrator

  May 13th, 2012

• Countdown to Christmas – Merry Christmas!

  

  Magic Paint Book Paint With Water Whitman Publishing Co., 1949

  December 25th, 2011

• Countdown to Christmas – 1 Day

  

  Magic Paint Book Paint With Water Whitman Publishing Co., 1949

  December 24th, 2011

• Countdown to Christmas – 2 Days

  

  Magic Paint Book Paint With Water Whitman Publishing Co., 1949

  December 23rd, 2011

• Countdown to Christmas – 3 Days

  

  Magic Paint Book Paint With Water Whitman Publishing Co., 1949

  December 22nd, 2011

• Countdown to Christmas – 4 Days

  

  Magic Paint Book Paint With Water Whitman Publishing Co., 1949

  December 21st, 2011

• Countdown to Christmas – 5 Days

  

  Magic Paint Book Paint With Water Whitman Publishing Co., 1949

  December 20th, 2011

• Countdown to Christmas – 6 Days

  

  Magic Paint Book Paint With Water Whitman Publishing Co., 1949

  December 19th, 2011

• Countdown to Christmas – 7 Days

  

  Magic Paint Book Paint With Water Whitman Publishing Co., 1949

  December 18th, 2011

• Countdown to Christmas – 8 Days

  

  Magic Paint Book Paint With Water Whitman Publishing Co., 1949

  December 17th, 2011

• Happy Thanksgiving!

  

  Friendly Animals Picture Book Merrill Company Publishers, 1951

  November 23rd, 2011

• McLoughlin Bros. – Travel Paint Book

  

  The wedding is over, and I am happy to say that Emily was very pleased with the decor.  It’s a lot of work bringing in all of your own linens, dishes, decorations, etc., but the end result was very cute.  The photographer just emailed me today and said the photos would not be ready for [...]

  September 9th, 2011

• Peter Puzzlemaker Puzzles – O & P

  

  Because I have nothing new to show you (except more boring napkins), here are a couple of George Carlson puzzles from the August, 1927 issue of John Martin’s Book.   I don’t have the September issue with the answers, but the results of the M and N puzzles are in this magazine, and they each have [...]

  August 1st, 2011

• Favorite Paint Book — Little Boys

  

  Last year I posted scans of 20 little girls from this undated vintage paint book by Mary Alice Stoddard, and I mentioned that I would also upload 20 images of little boys from the same book.  I forgot all about this until yesterday, when I received  an email from Wanetha, who included a photo of [...]

  June 28th, 2011

• Let’s Play House — Lois Lenski, 1944

  

  I was excited to find a copy of this Lenski book because, although I have seen the title in her bibliography,  I’ve never  seen any of the illustrations.  I don’t remember having any Lenski books as a child, but I bought “The Big Book of Mr. Small” for my son, Elliott, when he was little, [...]

  June 24th, 2011