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Month: September 2024
April Baby’s Book of Tunes – Illustrated by Kate Greenaway – 1900
Little Polly Flinders Hush a Bye Baby The Tea Party Jack and Jill Pussy Cat, Where Have You Been Curly Locks. Sing a Song of Sixpence. Where Are You Going, My Pretty Maid. Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild
Kate Greenaway –
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY On a Letter to Ruskin. About the name of Kate Greenaway there floats a perfume so sweet and fragrant that even at the moment of her death we thought more of the artist we admired than of the friend we had lost. Grateful for the work she had produced, with all its charm…
Language of Flowers – Kate Greenaway – 1884
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The Story of Greece Illustrated by Walter Crane
The Story of Greece by Mary MacGregor MacGregor, Mary. The Story of Greece. London, T. C. and E. C. JACK, Ltd., 1914. Illustrated by Walter Crane. CHAPTER I WONDERLAND The story of Greece began long, long ago in a strange wonderland of beauty. Woods and winds, fields and rivers, each had a pathway which led upward and…
Walter Crane – His Life, His Influence on Art & Design, & His Contribution to Children’s Literature
Image Credit: Wikipedia Walter Crane had a relatively short life, but his contribution to art and literature was immense. He was born on August 15, 1845, and he died on March 14, 1915. He was an illustrator who was among the group labeled as the Golden Age of Illustrators. But beyond that, he was a…
The Three Bears – Walter Crane
THE THREE BEARS. Some time ago, ere we were born or thought of,There lived a little girl, who liked to roamThrough lonely woods and lanes, unknown, unsought ofSuch folk who like to stop and stay at home.She found out curious things in all her travelAnd one of her adventures I will tell:Once, in a wood…
Old Mother Hubbard – Walter Crane
. Old Mother HubbardWent to the cupboardTo get her poor Dog a bone;But when she came thereThe cupboard was bare,And so the poor Dog had none. She went to the baker’sTo buy him some bread,But when she came back,The poor Dog was dead. She went to the joiner’sTo buy him a coffin,But when she came…