Charlie Brown (Reblogged from the amazing N’East Style – Check out their Linus post too)
Showing posts with label children books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label children books. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Charlie Brown
SOURCE Nerdboyfriend - Click here to go to original post
Charlie Brown (Reblogged from the amazing N’East Style – Check out their Linus post too)
Charlie Brown (Reblogged from the amazing N’East Style – Check out their Linus post too)
Monday, May 16, 2011
The Giant Golden Book of Birds
SOURCE Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves - Click here to go to original post
The Giant Golden Book of Birds
by Robert Porter Allen
designed and illustrated by Arthur Singer
Golden Press, 1962
I'm posting this morning on a book I probably should have highlighted a while ago considering it's prominently displayed in my banner. Those who read this blog regularly know that from the time my son was about 2 and a half, he's been obsessively preoccupied with all things feathered. This love has been unwavering. Never for a moment has it flickered. Other dalliances have come and gone, but for more three years, if you ask him what his favorite thing is, he will tell you. Birds.
I doubt many five years old have written fan letters to David Attenborough professing their love for his work. This past week, huddled in bed fighting colds and ear infections, the American Masters documentary on John James Audubon became his new best friend. He has a habit of circling every bird he sees with his index finger. He loves to draw them. He loves to memorize their names. He loves to make them out of tin foil and fly them around the house.
I was never really a bird person, but when your child embraces something so passionately and fully, you can't help but open up the window and let the love in. As such, I've searched the world over for bird books. My son has dozens of bird guides, chronicling species where his grandmother lives in Virginia, the coast of Maine, the Gulf, California... Being the vintage buff that I am, for me, there is no bird book better for children than The Giant Golden Book of Birds. It is, hands down, my son's favorite book.
Singer's first book Birds of the World was written for adults and published by Golden in 1961. It has many of the same illustrations --and more-- as it's three times the size. The Giant version was published a year later and is basically the same book whittled down in content and repackaged for children. To perfection I might add. There is something about its over-sized layout -- huge pages busting to the brim with colorful birds -- that makes me re-fall in love every time my son cracks it open. Though he adores both books, the one designed with kids in mind is definitely the winner.
If your child has any interest in nature or birds, ours makes a lovely addition to the coffee table. As a mother, this will be the book I look back on and remember.
And cry over, of course.
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by Robert Porter Allen
designed and illustrated by Arthur Singer
Golden Press, 1962
I'm posting this morning on a book I probably should have highlighted a while ago considering it's prominently displayed in my banner. Those who read this blog regularly know that from the time my son was about 2 and a half, he's been obsessively preoccupied with all things feathered. This love has been unwavering. Never for a moment has it flickered. Other dalliances have come and gone, but for more three years, if you ask him what his favorite thing is, he will tell you. Birds.
I doubt many five years old have written fan letters to David Attenborough professing their love for his work. This past week, huddled in bed fighting colds and ear infections, the American Masters documentary on John James Audubon became his new best friend. He has a habit of circling every bird he sees with his index finger. He loves to draw them. He loves to memorize their names. He loves to make them out of tin foil and fly them around the house.
I was never really a bird person, but when your child embraces something so passionately and fully, you can't help but open up the window and let the love in. As such, I've searched the world over for bird books. My son has dozens of bird guides, chronicling species where his grandmother lives in Virginia, the coast of Maine, the Gulf, California... Being the vintage buff that I am, for me, there is no bird book better for children than The Giant Golden Book of Birds. It is, hands down, my son's favorite book.
Singer's first book Birds of the World was written for adults and published by Golden in 1961. It has many of the same illustrations --and more-- as it's three times the size. The Giant version was published a year later and is basically the same book whittled down in content and repackaged for children. To perfection I might add. There is something about its over-sized layout -- huge pages busting to the brim with colorful birds -- that makes me re-fall in love every time my son cracks it open. Though he adores both books, the one designed with kids in mind is definitely the winner.
If your child has any interest in nature or birds, ours makes a lovely addition to the coffee table. As a mother, this will be the book I look back on and remember.And cry over, of course.
—————
Read along on Facebook, tumblr, Twitter and Etsy
3-D Spacescapes (1964)
SOURCE Dreams of Space - Click here to go to original post
This is a spectacular book of punch-outs of the surfaces of other planets. It takes the space art and makes it 3-D. Because the book itself is 15" x 10" some of the images are harder to share. Also since I did not want to assemble this beauty you can only get part of the effect. What blows me away about this book is the impressionistic approach to showing the surface of these other planets.
It is part of the Hammond "Construct-o-kit" books. Hammond was a map and atlas company that as their part of the space age created a number of spaceflight images as to be used in introductions to atlases and as maps.
Construct-o-kit 3-D spacescapes. By Sonya Rubin Fish. C. S. Hammond, Inc. 1965-02-18 (in notice: 1964)
Other uses of the Hammond images are found in these blog posts:
Some of my favorite images include these of a moonbase and a lunar lander.
There is almost no text in this book except this information page. Like other punch-out books this one encourages a child to imagine what the future might bring.
This is a spectacular book of punch-outs of the surfaces of other planets. It takes the space art and makes it 3-D. Because the book itself is 15" x 10" some of the images are harder to share. Also since I did not want to assemble this beauty you can only get part of the effect. What blows me away about this book is the impressionistic approach to showing the surface of these other planets.
As you see each page is huge with lots of images so I scanned part of the page so you can see some of the spaceflight vehicles and plans.
It is part of the Hammond "Construct-o-kit" books. Hammond was a map and atlas company that as their part of the space age created a number of spaceflight images as to be used in introductions to atlases and as maps.
Construct-o-kit 3-D spacescapes. By Sonya Rubin Fish. C. S. Hammond, Inc. 1965-02-18 (in notice: 1964)
Other uses of the Hammond images are found in these blog posts:
http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/12/happy-holidays-from-my-room.html (the poster in the background)
Some of my favorite images include these of a moonbase and a lunar lander.
There is almost no text in this book except this information page. Like other punch-out books this one encourages a child to imagine what the future might bring.
Méthode et exercices de langues française
SOURCE Agence Eureka - Click here to go to original post
Illustrations de Raylambert pour 'Méthode et exercices de langues française' (1947)
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