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Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2025

WIGWAM WONDER TALES BY WILLIAM THOMPSON ILLUSTRATED BY CARLE MICHEL BOOG

 Carle Michel Boog (1877-1968)

Boog, a painter and illustrator, was born in Lucerne, Switzerland and came as a child to America. He studied at the Art Students' League in New York, and later in Paris at the Ecole de des Beaux Arts with Louis Bonnat. He exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1904.

Boog, who lived most of his life on Parkville Avenue in Brooklyn, was a member of the Salmagundi Club and exhibited at the National Academy Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Rochester Memorial Art Gallery, American Watercolor Society, Allied American Artists, and the Brooklyn Museum.

His work is found in the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New York, the Museum of the University of Nebraska, and the Historical Museum of Bennington, Vermont.

Boog illustrated a number of books, including an edition of James Fenimoore Cooper's Leather Stocking Tales and How It Came About Stories by Frank B. Linderman.












































Montag, 13. Oktober 2025

THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS BY KENNETH GRAHAME ILLUSTRATED BY PAUL BRANSOM

Paul Bransom (July 26, 1885 – July 19, 1979) was an American painter, cartoonist, and illustrator of animals.



The Piper at the Gates of Dawn



It was the Water Rat


"Come on!" he said. "We shall just have to walk it"

In panic, he began to run

Through the Wild Wood and the snow


Toad was a helpless prisonner in the remotest dungeon

He lay prostrate in his misery on the floor

"It's a hard life, by all accounts," murmured the Rat

Dwelling chiefly on his own cleverness, and presence of mind in emergencies


The Badger said, "Now then, follow me!"













Donnerstag, 9. Oktober 2025

THE PRINCESS AND THE GOBLIN by George MacDonald illustrated by Jessie Willcox Smith

Jessie Willcox Smith (September 6, 1863 – May 3, 1935) was an American illustrator during the Golden Age of American illustration.