Sarah's posted the mega-long list of children's books she used in her talk at last weekend's Caption: loads of great-looking books for you to check out. Just browsing through those will keep you occupied for hours. This post on Roald Dahl covers popped up in Paul K's shared GR items last week, and today I [...]
Posts Tagged ‘children’s books’
The Voyage of Prince Fuji
Last week I mentioned that the Kuniyoshi exhibition had reminded me of a book I loved as a child, The Voyage of Prince Fuji by Jenny Thorne. It's long been out of print, and there's no information about it online, so I promised to do a post about the book, with some pictures from it, [...]
the House that Mouse built
As promised in my last post, I dug out my copy of House By Mouse, written by George Mendoza and illustrated by Doris Smith. Reading through it again, I was tickled to see which houses I coveted when I was little — as indicate by a pencil caption "my house" on each one I liked. [...]
houses for mouses and rabbits
So, I was just catching up on some blog-reading, and was looking at Sarah's lovely post on the backstory to Vern & Lettuce, with this ace cutaway illustration of Lettuce's burrow: The illustration instantly reminded me of a book I'd loved when I was a kid, House By Mouse. I couldn't remember who had written [...]
