The last week has been eventful, well kind of. Last Sunday I cooked Easter dinner for 18. Monday I rested. Tuesday I quit smoking. Wednesday I got sick. Since then I've been sleeping and laying around, turning into a blob. I'm starting to get bored, which I'll take as a sign of getting better. And for once getting sick was a blessing, it helped with the first few difficult days of nicotine withdrawl. In The Quitting Deal written by Tobi Tobias and illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, mother and daughter both have habits to quit. They make a deal to quit together and to help each other. Holy Cow! How many vintage children's books do you see with a mother smoking while nursing, not to mention with other children and pets?! This book is from 1975, but even so... Trina Schart Hyman was influenced by the Brandywine era of artists such as Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac. You can see this influence in her work, but she was also very contemporary and didn't shy away from illustrations that other's might not find acceptable. Mother and daughter test several ideas: the holding hands cure, the talking cure, the candy cure, the comforting cure, the penny cure, the food cure and the next to last cure. What I like about this book (besides the fact that Trina Schart Hyman illustrated it) is how the family lovingly supports each other. No blame, no guilt, no anger. They understand for a person to truly quit an addiction, they need to do it on their own. We don't get the requisite happy ending in this book either. Just a strong message of hope and support. The Quitting Deal By Tobi Tobias Illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman The Viking Press, 1975 To read about Trina Schart Hyman: Harper Collins Publishers Trina Schart Hyman
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"La terrible histoire de Pauline et des alumettes"... Les chats s'apellent Minz et Maunz. Pour une traduction en anglais, voir ici "The dreadful story of Pauline and the Matches"... The cats are called Minz and Maunz. For an english translation, see here
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(11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer whose books have been among the world's best-sellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Blyton's books are still enormously popular, and have been translated into 90 languages. She wrote on a wide range of topics including education, natural history, fantasy, mystery, and biblical narratives and is best remembered today for her Noddy, Famous Five, Malory Towers and Secret Seven series. Her first book, Child Whispers, a 24-page collection of poems, was published in 1922. Following the commercial success of her early novels such as Adventures of the Wishing-Chair (1937) and The Enchanted Wood (1939), Blyton went on to build a literary empire, sometimes producing fifty books a year in addition to her prolific magazine and newspaper contributions. Her writing was unplanned and sprang largely from her unconscious mind: she typed her stories as events unfolded before her. The sheer volume of her work and the speed with which it was produced led to rumours that Blyton employed an army of ghost writers, a charge she vigorously denied. Blyton's work became increasingly controversial among literary critics, teachers and parents from the 1950s onwards, because of the alleged unchallenging nature of her writing and the themes of her books, particularly the Noddy series. Some libraries and schools banned her works, which the BBC had refused to broadcast from the 1930s until the 1950s because they were perceived to lack literary merit. Her books have been criticised as being elitist, sexist, racist, xenophobic and at odds with the more progressive environment emerging in post-Second World War Britain, but they have continued to be best-sellers since her death in 1968. She felt she had a responsibility to provide her readers with a strong moral framework, so she encouraged them to support worthy causes. In particular, through the clubs she set up or supported, she encouraged and organised them to raise funds for animal and paediatric charities. The story of Blyton's life was dramatised in a BBC film entitled Enid, featuring Helena Bonham Carter in the title role and first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC Four in 2009. There have also been several adaptations of her books for stage, screen and television. Credit: Wikipedia SOME OF HER BOOKS ALSO READ Tactical concealed Carry Counting the Cost: An Interview with Bulgarian Film Director and Writer Harry the Cheeky Prince by Laura TATA Onuigbo From Bob Scott Publishing: Read and Grow Rich Better Ways to Make Love
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Today's vintage children's book, Ferdinand, is a redo from 2010. My scanner was not working properly at the time and threw a pink cast on every page. This post has all new scans and most of the illustrations from the book, plus the story itself, which is very entertaining. I kept the text in it's original format so not to lose the rhythm of the story. "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 had a favorite spot out in the pasture under a cork tree." "It was his favorite tree and he would sit in its shade all day..." "Sometimes his mother, who was a cow, would worry about him. She was afraid he would be lonesome all by himself." "Why don't you run and play with the other little bulls and skip and butt your head?" she would say." "But Ferdinand would shake his head. "I like it better here where I can sit just quietly and smell the flowers." "His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy." "As the years went by Ferdinand grew and grew until he was very big and strong." "All the other bulls who had grown up with him in the same pasture would fight each other all day. They would butt each other and stick each other with their horns. What they wanted most of all was to be picked to fight at the bull fights in Madrid." "One day five men came in very funny hats to pick the biggest, fastest, roughest bull to fight in the bull fights in Madrid." "All the other bulls ran around snorting and butting, leaping and jumping so the men would think that they were very very strong and fierce and pick them." "Ferdinand knew that they wouldn't pick him and he didn't care. So he went out to his favorite cork tree to sit down." "He didn't look where he was sitting and instead of sitting on the nice cool grass in the shade he sat on a bumble bee." "Well, if you were a bumble bee and a bull sat on you what would you do? You would sting him. And that is just what this bee did to Ferdinand." "Wow! Did it hurt! Ferdinand jumped up with a snort. He ran around puffing and snorting, butting and pawing the ground as if he were crazy." "The five men saw him and they all shouted with joy. Here was the largest and fiercest bull of all. Just the one for the bull fights in Madrid!" "So they took him away for the bull fight day in a cart." "What a day it was! Flags were flying, bands were playing. . . " "and all the lovely ladies had flowers in their hair." "They had a parade into the bull ring." "First came the Banderilleros with long sharp pins with ribbons on them to stick in the bull and make him mad." "Next came the Picadores who rode skinny horses and they had long spears to stick in the bull and make him madder." "Then came the Matador, the proudest of all--he thought he was very handsome, and bowed to the ladies. He had a red cape and a sword and was supposed to stick the bull last of all." "Then came the bull, and you know who that was don't you?" --FERDINAND. "They called him Ferdinand the Fierce and all the Banderilleros were afraid of him and the Picadores were afraid of him and the Matador was scared stiff." "Ferdinand ran to the middle of the ring and everyone shouted and clapped because the thought he was going to fight fiercely and butt and snort and stick his horns around." "But not Ferdinand. When he got to the middle of the ring he saw flowers in all the lovely ladies' hair and he just sat down quietly and smelled." "He wouldn't fight and be fierce no matter what they did. He just sat and smelled. And the Banderilleros were mad and the Picadores were madder and the Matador was so mad he cried because he couldn't show off with his cape and sword." "So they had to take Ferdinand home." "And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly." To read about Robert Lawson go to my first post where you can also view my pink scans :> ). The Story of Ferdinand By Munro Leaf Drawings by Robert Lawson Puffin Books, 1981 First Published by The Viking Press, 1936
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