Only the best thing ever: Advice to Little Girls – a playful and mischievous short story penned by young Mark Twain in 1865, encouraging girls to think independently rather than obey social mores, newly illustrated by beloved Russian children’s book artist Vladimir Radunsky.
Lovely poster for New York’s Downtown Literary Festival by the one and only Sophie Blackall, in the style of her endlessly endearing Missed Connections.
It is the other ordinary buildings, spilling with hectic daily life, that hold real New York life and passion.
Australian illustrator James Gulliver Hancock has set out to draw all the buildings in New York.
Most Beds are Beds for sleeping and resting, but the best Beds are much more interesting!
The Bed Book – a rare British first edition of Sylvia Plath’s vintage verses for kids, illustrated by the great Quentin Blake.
If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won’t. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.
Young Mark Twain’s mischievous advice to little girls.
Good little girls always show marked deference for the aged. You ought never to ‘sass’ old people unless they ‘sass’ you first.
Mark Twain’s Advice to Little Girls.
A FEATHER.
A feather is trimmed, it is trimmed by the light and the bug and the post, it is trimmed by little leaning and by all sorts of mounted reserves and loud volumes. It is surely cohesive.
Lisa Congdon illustrates Tender Buttons, Gertrude Stein’s avant-garde 1914 verses about everyday objects.
Happy World Water Day! Celebrate with Plink Plink, a lovely vintage illustrated story about water’s life-giving gifts from 1954.
