"The Great Sea-Horse" by Isabel Anderson, illustrated by John Elliott, 2nd part

Young Neptune

He was very brave and strong ... and battled with the gteat octopus.

Betty and the Sea Fairy

Next she hitched the mouse to  a seashell for a carriage.

Whistling Bob and his Wicked Cat

"Cat", cried the whitch, stamping her feet, "you too my keep your name and continue to mew."

The Bold Sea Dwarfs

I saw something on the bowsprit that looked like a grinning dwarf.

I was sitting on a cockle-shell, gliding over the surface of the water.

Justice  Whisker's Trial

 He took his seat on a large tomato, which served as a cushion to the throne.

Old Man of the Sea's Ransom

First they stuffed his noisy trumpets.

So it came about that a new and beautiful island reache the light. 

 

  The Fairy Admiral

The little ship grounded among the long grasses....of the Island of the Flower Fairies

Just then the nixie of the fountain showed her beutiful head.

The laughing wind fairies were filling their cheeks and blowing the humming-bird stright out to the open ocean.

 Endpapers

"The Great Sea-Horse" by Isabel Anderson, illustrated by John Elliott, 1st part

John Elliott (April 22, 1858 – May 26, 1925) was an artist, illustrator, and muralist. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian under Carolus-Duran. In 1878, he went to Rome to study with José Villegas Cordero and there met his future wife, Maud Howe, Pulitzer-prize-winning American writer and the daughter of Julia Ward Howe, the author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." Elliott is known for his epic Symbolist murals including working alongside his friend and colleague John Singer Sargent to provide murals for the Boston Public library. As well as creating a mural in the National Museum.( now the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.)

 

 John Elliott

 Frontispiece

 The Fairy Admiral

 She lived in a beautiful air-castle built of children's rainbow-colored soap bubbles.

The Great Sea Horse

 He would not have minded having one pretty mermaid for his mistress, to ride on his back and to pet him.

He loved to roll in the yellow sand by the light of the moon.

 

 He kicked the wheel and broke it into flinders.

Foxy's Reward

 Come on, boys....We'll have a sail on an iceberg"

 My Forest School

 "Once I thought  I saw a fairy sitting in a pond lily."

 

The Ocean Giant

 Where he knocked the burning ashes from his pipe a volcanic island sprang up.

 

Old Neptune drove up  in his chariot, which was drawn by prancing white horses.

 

 The Moon Baby

The moon boy  slipped down a silver ray into a garden full of flowers.

 

The Dance of the Fire Fairies

 The good fire fairies have been making pictures for me on the wall.

 Merry Jerry's Strange Visit 

"S-s-h! Give me your hand. A devilfish lurks here!*

 They caught a big dogfish and Jerry got astride on him.

Brüderchen und Schwesterchen gezeichnet von FRANZ MÜLLER-MÜNSTER

Franz Müller-Münster (* 13. November 1867 in Münster /Westf, † 1936 in Hohenwiese) war ein deutscher Maler und Grafiker/Illustrator sowie Mitglied des Vereins Berliner Künstler.
Er schuf eine Einzelausgab des Grimm-Märchens Brüderchen und Schwesterchen in der Reihe Scholz' Künstler-Bilderbücher. Auch in Sammelbänden, die unter diesem Reihentitel erschienen, wurde Illustrationen Müller-Münsters veröffentlicht.
Außerdem erschienen eine Zeit lang größtenteils schwarz-weiße aber auch einige farbige Illustrationen Münsters in verschiedenen Sammelbänden des Verlages Ensslin & Laiblin.