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Donnerstag, 29. August 2024

THE GOLDEN HEART BY VIOLET JACOB ILLUSTRATED BY MAY CATHRINE SANDHEIM

May Cathrine Sandheim (born in Dublin 1878 and died 1909) was an illustrator.


Great blue lotos-flowers were covering the brink to the water’s edge.
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THE GOLDEN HEART





THE STORY OF THE SORCERER’S SONS AND THE TWO PRINCESSES OF JAPAN




GRIMAÇON




THE DOVECOTE



THE PEACOCK’S TAIL


THE PELICAN



THE CHERRY TREES




JACK FROST
A STORY FOR VERY LITTLE CHILDREN






Montag, 26. August 2024

THE MAGIC FISHBONE BY CHARLES DICKENS WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY SUSAN BEATRICE PEARSE

Susan Beatrice Pearse (19 January 1878 – 1980) was a British illustrator of children's books best known for the Ameliaranne series of books. 


















Donnerstag, 22. August 2024

RUDYARD KIPLING: JUST SO STORIES ILLUSTRATED BY J.M. GLEESON AND PAUL BRANSOM

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

Joseph Michael Gleeson (1861 – September 26, 1917) was an American painter and illustrator. He is responsible for the only painting of the life of a thylacine and her cubs, from the National Zoo's specimens in 1902. He co-illustrated one of the earliest American editions of Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling. Some of his works are now considered paleoart. Gleeson died on September 26, 1917, in Ashburn, Virginia.






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