I know you're fond of this kind of graphism, me too, so i scanned especially for you this lovely book called "What makes an orchestra" written and illustrated by Jan Balet in 1959. The book is full of adorable pictures and the double pages are gorgeous, please click on them to enlarge !!!
Karel en mienet is one of my favorite illustrated book. I'm still looking for Karel en mienet 2, if you have it and want to sell it, I'm interested so please contact me at : [email protected].
More from my recent photoshoot of annuals covers, this time covering The Schoolgirls' Own Annual . This is a complete run of the title. The ...
Chronicle file Did you deliver newspapers in Houston decades ago? Do you have an older friend or relative who had that job? If so, then let’s talk about those days of what it was like to be a…
It becomes increasingly difficult to share my books with you because they are mostly very old and very difficult to handle but it was worth it !!! Enjoy the beautiful lithographs by Nina Holme !!! ENJOY !!! :)
Vintage children book from the 50's and the 60's !!!
I Love this book so so much !!! :) It's one of the first book i bought when i started my collection. I'm a big fan of his work !!! This book was originally printed in 1947 !!! It's crazy !!! :D Leonard made realistic books very beautiful too !!!
Published 1938 in Daily life arithmetics edition
Celebrate diversity and culture with this vast collection of multicultural books for children! Includes 60+ book lists, from toddlers through big kids.
From 'Little Boy with a big horn' by Jack Bechdolt, illustration by Aurelius Battaglia. Excerpted in 'Golden Favorites', Golden Press New York, 1960.
Accompanied by Manual for teaching [Tch.man], Teacher's edition, My do and learn book [Wkbk.], and supplement
Here is one of my latest acquisitions! I had a little crush on this little book illustrated by André Dugo in 1963. I like the cover and the first double page on a black background. So cute ! :)
Some beautiful maps illustrated by Maurice Tranchant ! :)
Many events shaped 1963 into a transformative year for Birmingham. Here are the highlights.
Brian Wildsmith. London, early 1960s. Hello there, I have some very exciting news for everyone who is a fan of the wonderful illustrations of Brian Wildsmith. Or indeed anyone, who is lucky to be y…
geef een boek of een boekje - 48x68, ca. 1960, added: same artist, app. same size, kinderboekenweek, ca. 1960 by Gerard Douwe
Gloria Steinem wrote an essay equality for TIME 50 years ago. She reflects on how far we've come since — and how far we still have to go.
More from the very talented Bernice Myers. This selection is mainly from the 50’s and 60’s, and it’s good to know that the very prolific Mrs Myers, some 60 books later, is still w…
Childrens books about dentists and teeth. Choices for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergartners, and elementary kids, with brief reviews of each.
Explore this photo album by patricia m on Flickr!
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You'll love reading these as much as your kids do.
Some beautiful maps illustrated by Maurice Tranchant ! :)
More from the very talented Bernice Myers. This selection is mainly from the 50’s and 60’s, and it’s good to know that the very prolific Mrs Myers, some 60 books later, is still w…
Today's entry is a guest post by my daughter, Mary... Hello Good Books for Young Souls readers! We'll get to Ferdinand in a minute, but first I want to share a little bit about my love of New York City with you. I remember so well my first visit to The Big Apple. I was 17, and it was November of my Senior year of high school when I embarked on a tri-generational visit to NYC with my dearest Mama and her mother, my Grandma . I loved the city that I had come to know through books, TV, and film. Experiencing New York first hand was intriguing. I embraced the energy of this "city that never sleeps." Fast forward to now - as a mom of two young kids, I find that the city, though ever-diverting, can become exhausting and overwhelming rather quickly with my little family in tow. The constant barrage of sensory stimulation suddenly seemed way beyond just an energetic "city vibe" when my husband and I went on our first NYC excursion with our two young sons for a stroll from Grand Central station to meet a friend in SoHo, nearly two miles of city blocks south. Since that initial and somewhat overwhelming family visit, I've tried to relax my standards a bit and focus on helping my family enjoy New York City, rather than becoming distracted by my "to do" list or trying to do too much in one day. With the help of Mommy Poppins (an indispensable website for families), we tend to choose one neighborhood or destination to explore, bring lots of snacks to enjoy when our excursion is finished, and then find ourselves a special and renowned treat before we head back home. So our visit with my mommy dearest, Good Books Grandma, followed much the same format. We decided to go to the Upper West Side (which we love, especially because of its prominence in Nora Ephron's You've Got Mail)... Upper West Side ...and planned to spend the day trying new things like Audrey Hepburn and George Peppard's characters in Breakfast at Tiffany's, another of my favorite New York City flicks! After enjoying a leisurely drive past snow-covered Central Park and a delicious lunch at a cute and kid-friendly eatery that we stumbled upon, we headed to the New York Historical Society. (It's right next to the American Museum of Natural History - another favorite spot that my mom blogged about here.) This was a first visit for both of us, and seemed like a great spot to soak up some local history and art, while also finding some fun for my boys. A big draw was the NYHS's Holiday Train Exhibit, which my three-year-old loved! source But what I had really been wanting to check out was the "Little New Yorkers" program in the NYHS's DiMenna Children's Museum. It turned out to be fantastic, and just the sort of "New York moment" that I had been looking for for my oldest son. We arrived at the colorful and interactive Children's Museum (in the downstairs of the NYHS) a few minutes before their Friday 3:30 program began. My three-year-old had fun exploring the train table and making new friends... ...while my little guy helped grandma as she perused the wall of books in the Children's History Library. There were lots of great titles we found to read during our visit, many of them about New York and US History. (I loved the NY skyline mural which made this feel like a rooftop library!) Soon it was time to begin the program, and after a fun sing-along song and short introduction to today's book with our wonderful educator, our group took a short field trip up the elevator to find a more fitting setting in which to read Munro Leaf's Ferdinand, which was the book selection for the day... How perfect! While we listened to Spanish classical tunes softly playing throughout the gallery, our educator talked with the children about Picasso's "Le Tricorne" which is newly on exhibit at the NYHS. (Note the PICASSO signature in the photo below.) Measuring roughly 20 square feet, this HUGE curtain (once meant to be a backdrop for a ballet, and believed to be Picasso's largest painting) really brought the bullfighting story to life for me. I can only imagine how much more so for the tiny people who were enjoying the story so intently!! After finishing the story and discussing Picasso's painting, we took the elevator back downstairs to work on this week's "Little New Yorker's" craft: a bull mask, complete with a flower crown. Because as we all know... "he liked to sit just quietly and smell the flowers" Now, my oldest son has loved Ferdinand since he was about 20 months old. "Except I don't like when he sits on that lil' bee," he'll tell you. Fair enough, my son. Regardless to say, he took the task at hand very seriously... "...there was a little bull and his name was Ferdinand." "All the other little bulls he lived with would run and jump and butt their heads together...but not Ferdinand." "He liked to sit just quietly and smell the flowers." He wore his mask all day, and enjoyed wearing it all around the DiMenna Children's Museum while he explored the exhibits. (See that little bull horn peeking out from between the windows?) And for all I know, he is sitting there still, wearing his bull mask, smelling the flowers just quietly. He is very happy. We really loved our visit to the New York Historical Society! We ended the day by finding some macarons from the whimsical and decadent Sugar and Plumm - Purveyors of Yumm for the trip back home. But of course, what we enjoyed most was our visit with Grandma! I'll never forget how we found a quiet but engaging spot in the midst of the Big Apple, with a little help from Ferdinand!
I had wanted to post about this for Valentine's Day, but it didn't work out. No matter - any time's a good time to spread a little love! This is the cover of Naiad Einsel's book, which she was working on when I first interviewed her in 2006. "Walter and I loved Valentine's Day," said Naiad. "It was a big day for us. We loved it more than Christmas. We loved it more than birthdays." Just before Christmas last year, I was delighted to discover Naiad had completed her book (it can be ordered at this link) which collects the hand-made valentines she and husband Walter exchanged annually during all the years of their life together. When they were a young couple living in a one-room apartment in Manhattan, they would put a dividing screen in the middle of the room while they worked on their valentines. While Naiad always created artworks on paper for Walter (like the beautiful design above) Walter's valentines for Naiad began to take on an added dimension. "Each year these efforts became more complex," said Naiad. "What started out as collages with old decorations and rubber stamps incorporated into the design, evolved around 1960 into elaborate 3-dimensional sculptures carved in wood, with internal whirling disks and moving parts." This remarkable little book (it measures just 9" square) is a wonderful document of a lifetime of creativity by two tremendously talented artists. It's also a very personal window on a life-long passionate love affair. Naiad has given us permission to share in that intimate relationship through her and Walter's words, pictures and sculptures. If you're like me, you will close this book feeling genuinely touched by the experience. Walter Einsel passed away in 1999 but happily, Naiad is still going strong at age 86. Nolan Pelletier, an illustrator who visited Naiad last year sent me a note saying, "Naiad's doing really well! She's an amazing person. I'll be visiting again in a few weeks, and will hopefully get to see her collection of clippings of Jerome Snyder, Joseph Low, and other great illustrators' work. [Her home is] an amazing museum of her and Walter's work. Every inch of space is carefully curated, full of beautiful things, and all kept meticulously clean. It's heaven." If you're interested in ordering your own copy of Naiad Einsel's Art from the Heart, you can do so at this link. *Art from the Heart is © 2008, 2013 Naiad Einsel
Moms who have daughters know how important it is to find empowering books for girls that celebrate being female (no Dick-dominated Dick and Jane stories, thank you very much.) Of course, reading to your kids (starting when they’re infants) is…
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