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Looking for a picture book to buy for someone or yourself this holiday season? Here are some I adore: If You Come to Earth by @SophieBlackall Hortense & The Shadow by @oharasisters Red Knit Cap Girl series by @naokosstoop The Imaginaries by @MsEmilyApple
"Wonder is not precisely knowing."
- Emily Dickinson, who was born #OTD in 1830
(art by Studio Vandaar)
Jean de Brunhoff was the French author and illustrator best known for creating the Babar series. He was born #OTD in 1899. The books began as a bedtime story that Cécile de Brunhoff invented for their children.
My account is no algorithm of calculated posts to get high numbers, but a hodge-podge of all that sparks my overly curious mind. A celebration of the delightful, whimsical and magical.
Today I just want to live in the winter world of Elsa Beskow where one is greeted by snow children, castles made of snow are guarded by friendly polar bears, a sled is pulled by a snowshoe hare & tiny children of the forest prepare their home beneath tree roots from the cold.