I recently found a copy of the New Gift Book of Nursery Ryhymes. I still have my copy from when I was a child, but couldn't walk past this. It is a little worse for wear, but the illustrations always captivate me.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
vintage childrens books
I am a real sucker for childrens books, especially vintage ones. I have a secret stash of very special ones tucked away up high that I will bring out for the girls when they are a bit bigger (Lucy is a little monkey and I would be gutted if she cut them up!). Have you seen the Vintage Childrens Books group on flickr ? If you are like me you can easily waste away a few hours browsing through all the gorgeous images that have been uploaded... so if you are like me, don't look (unless you have a few hours to kill!)
I recently found a copy of the New Gift Book of Nursery Ryhymes. I still have my copy from when I was a child, but couldn't walk past this. It is a little worse for wear, but the illustrations always captivate me.
I recently found a copy of the New Gift Book of Nursery Ryhymes. I still have my copy from when I was a child, but couldn't walk past this. It is a little worse for wear, but the illustrations always captivate me.
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I'm sure I have a similiar book somewhere!
ReplyDeleteI had that book growing up too! :)
ReplyDeleteI just love the artwork!!! Makes me want to get the paints out ....
ReplyDeleteTake care and Happy Sewing!
Sarah
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I think I'm too old to have had books like these - but they're gorgeous
ReplyDeleteI have this book too, the illustrations are stunning.
ReplyDeleteoooh! i had that one!!
ReplyDeleteIts a cool book alright. cheers Marie
ReplyDeleteI am sure that one of my sisters had the same book.
ReplyDeleteI still have my childhood nursery rhyme book - used to use it with the boys when they were small - so many rhymes in there that we never hear anymore.
Wow, wonderful illustrations. My mum had kept some of the books I read when I was about 8 or 9, books like Carbonel and The Folk of the Far Away Tree. So they have the 70's style illustrations. I will let my two boys read them when they are old enough.. in the mean time they sit on my book shelf, waiting.
ReplyDeleteLou, I have just read the Faraway Tree collection (The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree and The Folk of the Faraway Tree all in one book!) to my 6 year old and she loved it, we got to the end (500+ pages) and she asked if we could read it again!
ReplyDeleteI also found my collection of Swallows & Amazons and Famous Five etc so can't wait to read those again :-)
Oooh - that book is so lovely!
ReplyDeleteI found a neat one that had some pictured cut out, so I cut some out too and framed them for my son.
ooh that book is beautiful! I love vintage books too although somewhere along the line all our childhood books bar a few have slowly dwindled away.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous Cat. I have my copy of the Fairytales book by the same illustrator. I really love the 70s look of them.
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