It's Book Blogger Appreciation Week, so all of my posts are reading related in some way this week. For Blue Monday I shared my Blue Fairy Book from my childhood, which has such wonderful illustrations, many which have blue in them.
I know my VTT friends would also love to see these gorgeous illustrations, so I have some without blue to share with you, and you can go to the Blue Monday post to see more if you like.
This particular book is from a series entitled Random House Books for Children.
Under this imprint Random House would edit and abridge classics into a picture book version.
In this specific book, the stories are exactly as Andrew Lang wrote them, but there are fewer and I like the illustrations in this version better.
In the standard of picture books published in the 1950s, the text is wrapped around the illustrations, and the style alternates from black and white to color. I loved the book as a child.
I still base all my thoughts and imaginings about kings and princesses and knights on the illustrations from this book.
I hope you've enjoyed the romantic world of princesses, knights, and talking animals! For more vintage niftiness, be sure to visit Suzanne @ Colorado Lady.
I know my VTT friends would also love to see these gorgeous illustrations, so I have some without blue to share with you, and you can go to the Blue Monday post to see more if you like.
This particular book is from a series entitled Random House Books for Children.
Under this imprint Random House would edit and abridge classics into a picture book version.
In this specific book, the stories are exactly as Andrew Lang wrote them, but there are fewer and I like the illustrations in this version better.
In the standard of picture books published in the 1950s, the text is wrapped around the illustrations, and the style alternates from black and white to color. I loved the book as a child.
I still base all my thoughts and imaginings about kings and princesses and knights on the illustrations from this book.I hope you've enjoyed the romantic world of princesses, knights, and talking animals! For more vintage niftiness, be sure to visit Suzanne @ Colorado Lady.
This book looks really familiar to me. I wonder if I had it as a child? The illustrations are wonderful, and I can see why you loved this book as a child!
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I do love all of the old graphics in these books! Happy VTT to you!
ReplyDeleteTheres nothing better than an old vintage book...I always try to imagine all the people that have thumbed through the pages!
ReplyDeleteI like vintage children's books. I actually have more of my mother's than mine. I think I must have skipped from Golden Books that were discarded to library books, though I did have a couple of classics that weren't saved either.
ReplyDeleteLove all the books you share that are vintage and have the old illustrations we loved as children. You rock girl! xxoo
ReplyDeleteSo many childhood memories! To have a book from your childhood, I can't imagine how wonderful that must be!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this :0)
Love vintage childrens books, just a shame at the first part of this year so many people were destroying them because of the new CPSIA laws. Sad!
ReplyDeletelove these vintage fairytale books with all their delightful illustrations :)
ReplyDeleteVintage children's books are lovely. I still read some of them every year.
ReplyDeletegreat illustrations...I think I might have has this book...
ReplyDeleteHave a great VTT and a wonderful weekend.
So neat that you still have that book from your childhood. It's so true, our first impressions of how the world looks like as a child really stick with us as adults.
ReplyDeleteI love the illustrations in the old children's books. Yours is precious.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
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I love old books. This one is very pristine! Thanks for sharing the beautiful pages.
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Certainly better than the new ones! Very pretty pictures.
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They sure don't make them like that anymore, Elizabeth! Thanks for sharing and stirring up those great memories of knights and princesses!
ReplyDeleteCheers!
Thanks for the information about Book Bloggers Appreciation Week. . .so cool!
ReplyDeleteThis is so wonderful! I collect children's books, so my heart just always skips a beat when I see a fabulously well read vintage book!
ReplyDeleteOh...it's absolutely charming! Look, the king and queen together in a carriage conversing with a talking cat! I think that boy is drowning.
ReplyDeleteOkay. Maybe THIS is my favorite of all you've shared.
Hello Elizabth, I stopped by to tell you I will be gone for a week without my computer. I will catch up with all my friends when I return. Have a wonderful week.
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This is so wonderful!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing it!
I love this link to our childhood. I'm not sure our "babies" of today are HEARING these wonderful old tales and nursery rhymes. Makes me kinda sad.
ReplyDeleteWhat a nice post! I remember my "fairy" books as a child in the 50's too. I work at a library and all the little girls come in looking for Princess books. They will always be popular. Enjoyed looking at yours!
ReplyDeleteStopping by from SITS! I love books like that and have a collection of school books from 1950 and before. Thanks for sharing yours!
ReplyDeleteWhat an amazing book, I love this look you've given us into such a fab treasury. Thank you!
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