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I haven't posted anything from S. Hee, who I adore, in a while. Little Black Cat is having a slice of watermelon while her companion naps.
I often spend a winter evening by the fire with something warm to drink, a high calorie~decadent, something to eat, and an absorbing book to keep me company. Badger and Raccoon look settled in for a cozy night in this illustration by Diana Lapshina.
Artist - Mabel Lucie Atwell - 'The Water Babies' (1915). J.M. Barrie adored her work and personally requested her to illustrate a 1921 edition of his play Peter Pan.
Winken, Blinken, and Nod.
A bed-time story of three dragonslayers sailing and fishing in the stars. Their boat is a wooden shoe. It's a reproduction based on a vintage book illustration by artist Willy Pogány from the book A Treasury of Verse for Little Children, circa 1908.
A gorgeous illustration by Jessie Wilcox Smith an American artist from The Golden Age of Illustration.
"It was the middle of winter and very, very cold."
from Brambly Hedge by Jill Barklem