Children's Literature
Charming Cut-Paper Fairy Tales of Sybille Schenker
Sybille Schenker’s fairy tales series features delicate cut paper art, elegant silhouettes, and translucent pages that cleverly play with light and shadow.
Sybille Schenker’s fairy tales series features delicate cut paper art, elegant silhouettes, and translucent pages that cleverly play with light and shadow.
Johan Egerkrans is the Swedish illustrator of a set of books on Norse Gods, Swedish fair folk, and creatures of world folklore. He combines a dark hard-edged imagination with the whimsy of Johan Bauer and Arthur Rackham.
Janet and Anne Grahame Johnstone illustrated several stunning series of myths, legends and folk tales for 5 years of Finding Out Magazine, some of which never appeared elsewhere…
The ‘Legendary Beasts’ series by fantasy artist Angus McBride appeared weekly on the back of Finding Out magazines for 36 weeks during 1966.
Ahhh – who doesn’t love a stack of cheap and cheerful vintage children’s books? Do you know how many books there were in this classic series of the 1950s and 60s? And which ones have multiple covers, multiple illustrators, and even in one case two different authors? This video includes Read more…