Category: Children’s Books

Two more sets of 12 to clean, and the book will be done. To find other illustrations by Peter Mabie, simply type “Mabie” in the search box, or click on the Children’s Books category above to browse my collection. Click any image for slideshow.

Last year I started scanning and cleaning this cute book by one of my favorite illustrators, Peter Mabie. About half of the 96 pages were uncolored, requiring only a little work in Photoshop to clean up the darkened paper. The remaining pages were all colored/scribbled on by a child using a black crayon (the most…

Since many of you are probably experiencing snow and freezing temperatures, here is a fun indoor activity for your children or grandchildren. My younger sister and I loved these activity books when we were little and, because this book was published about a decade earlier, it is even cooler than the books I remember (the…

George Carlson, Illustrator Hazel Frazee, Illustrator Fern Bisel Peat, Illustrator

Lots to Color Western Publishing, 1953 Eileen Vaughan, Illustrator

The Golden Almanac Pictures by Masha Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1944 FRONT BACK DUST JACKET

The Golden Almanac Pictures by Masha Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1944

At first I was just going to scan and clean my favorite pictures from this coloring book, but I had such a difficult time choosing among them, that I have decided to do the whole book.  I’m about halfway through the 96 pages now, so I’ll take a little break from this activity, and hopefully…

Here is the second set of these cute coloring book pages.  More pages from an earlier post are available here. Poster Picture Book to color Peter Mabie, Illustrator Whitman Publishing, 1934

This is a wonderful old coloring book that I’ve been wanting to share for some time.  Unfortunately, all but a few of the 96 pages have been colored with crayon, so each illustration requires a cleanup in Photoshop.  I shouldn’t complain, because I’m amazed that these books survive at all as the newsprint type paper…

Children’s Playmate Magazine Fern Bisel Peat, Illustrator

In 1959, not long after this coloring book was published, Alaska and Hawaii became the 49th and 50th states.  As an 11 year-old growing up in Oklahoma, I remember thinking how cool it was to have such exotic places become part of the United States. You can find the previously posted countries by clicking on…