Sarah Swett’s Needlework Literature

Sarah Swett uses textiles to make what she calls “slow literature”. Her amazing work includes facsimiles: (click and zoom for …

Walter Crane’s Fairy Tale Prints

Anno’s Journey

Anno’s Journey, by Mitsumasa Anno, is one of the most delightful picture books I’ve ever read. But actually you don’t …

I Am a Bunny

Rick has been bugging me for a while to post some scans from I Am a Bunny, by Ole Risom, …

The Goop Directory, by Gelett Burgess

Here are some poems and illustrations from The Goop Directory, written and illustrated by Gelett Burgess and published in 1913. …

PeePul Pals, 1967

Here are a few pages from a little book of gender-role education that I was given as a wee child. …

The Golden Treasury of Natural History, by Bertha Morris Parker

The Golden Treasury of Natural History by Bertha Morris Parker is a book that my husband Rick has had since …

The 21 Balloons

The 21 Balloons, written and illustrated by William Pene du Bois, was one of my favorite books as a child. …

Jules Feiffer Comics from 1958

I grew up reading Jules Feiffer comics in the local newspaper, but I didn’t realize that he had been writing …

Tove Jansson’s Illustrations for The Hobbit

Thanks to commenter Dr. Nick for making me aware of these terrific pictures. I’ve posted before about Tove Jansson’s classic …

Illustrated Children’s Book: Children of Many Lands

Here are a few prints by Ninow MacKnight from the book Children of Many Lands, published in 1960.

Ernst Haeckel’s Scientific Illustrations

I posted a few days ago about Christian Gottfried Ehrnber’s scientific drawings, and received a link to these: They’re Ernst …

An Angel is Born: Iranian Children’s Picture Book

I’ve posted before about the International Children’s Digital Library, which is full of facsimile copies of entire children’s books. Here’s …

Gustave Doré’s Engravings of the Great Flood

Another book we had around the house when I was a kid was the Gustave Doré Bible, which included these …

Dorothy Lathrop

I grew up with a set of books called the Junior Classics. I think they came as a bonus when …

Klaus Haapaniemi

I’ve recently written a sample translation for a new picture book with text by Rosa Liksom and pictures by Klaus …

Soviet-Era Fairytale Book

I bought this Soviet-era book of Karelian fairy tales in a used book store in Helsinki. The stories are written …

Very Rich Hours

Tres Riches Heures is an illustrated calendar and prayerbook that was commissioned by Jean, Duke of Berry, around the year …

Moomins

Tove Jansson‘s Moomin books are rare classics of children’s literature that combine really thoughtful and touching stories with beautiful illustrations. …

Little Nemo in Slumberland

Windsor McCay was the creator of the Little Nemo in Slumberland newspaper comics, which appeared in the New York Herald …