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Here’s a lovely 1959 version of Beauty and the Beast. #Art by #GordonLaite in The Blue Book of Fairy Tales. (Beast’s monogram kills me!!!) #picturebook #littlegoldenbooks #fairytales #fairytale #illustration #folkloreThursday #midcentury #kidlitart
1961 #illustrations for Johnny-Cake, in McCall’s Read Me a Story Book. #leonardweisgard #art #vintage #kidlitart #mycollection #vintagechildrensbooks
Lord Peter is the transformation tale of beheaded cat who becomes a human princess. This #illustration is that story in McCall’s Read Me a Story Book (1961). #Art by Leonard Weisgard. #leonardweisgard #art #vintage #kidlitart #picturebook #animalbride #folklore #folklorethursday
#TashaTudor #illustrations 1967, in First Poems of Childhood. #art #kidlit #kidlitart #kidlitwomen #illustration
The gentle good humor of this book is a rare and lovely thing. Our Animal Friends at #MapleHillFarm, by the #Provensens. #vintage #illustration #provensen
In 1968, #AdrienneAdams #illustrated an edition of the #Grimm #fairytale Jorinda and Joringel. #vintage #picturebook #childrensbook #vintagechildrensbook #art #folklorethursday #brothersgrimm
1974 #trinascharthyman #illustrations in #TheEverythingBook, a favorite resource #book in our house. #vintage #kidlitart #easter #crafts #art
A #1920s #illustration for Perseus and Andromeda in A Child’s Book of #Myths and Enchantment Tales, illustrated by #MargaretEvansPrice. #mythology #folklorethursday
#MargaretEvansPrice drew #Cinderella and her fairy godmother this way in 1921. This #illustration is from Once Upon a Time, reprinted in By a Woman’s Hand. #goldenageillustrators #folklorethursday #grimm
1955 #illustrations by #leonardweisgard for a #picturebook edition of #beatrixpotter’s Peter Rabbit story. #vintage #books #art #midcentury #illustration #kidlitart #vintagechildrensbooks