Spotted Beauty

Helen Borten, The Jungle, 1968, thanks to Arthur van Kruining

Peter Beard

Nick Brandt

Lucy Newton

Valentin Kurdov, Kipling Tales, via polny_shkaf

Brian Wildsmith's Wild Animals via Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves

Joëlle Jolivet

Józef Wilkon

Alex Sickling

Souther Salazar

Sandra Dieckmann

Pablo Audadell, Isis

Luigi Loquarto

Miroco Machiko

Merab Abramishvili

Peter Clark

Cathie Bleck

V. Belyshev, These are all the cats, 1971, via Book Graphics

Alphabet Soup

Feodor Rojankovsky from Animal tales, 1944, thanks to art.crazed

Having fun with some favorite artists and books and a few new ones...

Alphabeasties

Bruno Munari's ABC

Jessica Hische at the Daily Drop Cap

Paul Thurlby

Virginia Tiffany, ABC, 1967 thanks to Try-whistling-this

Sebastiano Ranchetti

Patrick Hruby, ABC is for Circus,  thanks to Delicious industries

  1970s matchbox cover, thanks to Grain Edit

Lucho Rodgriguez

C. B. Falls, The Book of ABCs, 1923

thanks to Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves

 Lotta Bruhn

Flora Chang at Happy Doodle Land

Art Seiden, The Nonsense Alhabet, 1959

thanks to try-whistling-this

Grace Gabler, A Child's Alphabet, c.1945, thanks to Chris Mullen

Lisa Dejohn

Art Seiden, My ABC Book, 1953

Vladimir Radunsky, An Edward Lear Alphabet

Cornelius DeWitt, The Little Golden ABC, 1951

Patric Hudson, Circus Alphabet, 1954

thanks to Julia Bailey

Tana Hoban, 26 Letters and 99 Cents

 Iwona Chmielewska

Staffan Wiren, thanks to P–E Fronning

Ema Pinner, Animals from A to Z, thanks again to Chris Mullen

William Wegman, ABC

The ABC's of Origami: Paper Folding for Children 

by Claude Sarasas, 1964, thanks to Kindra is here

Bologna finds - Lucho Rodriguez

I first discovered Ediciones Tecolote when they published two of Sebastiano's books in 2005, 

and have since appreciated the innovative and refined production of this Mexican publisher. In 2007 they won

the Bologna New Horizons award with El Libro Negro de los Colores by Rosana Faria and Menena Cottin.

This outstanding book is a wonderful exploration of color through the other senses designed to be experienced

by both children who can see and who can't. The textured illustrations are embossed with black ink on 

black paper, while the evocative texts are printed reversed and in Braille. You can watch a video of the book,

now also available in an English edition, here.

But I digress. In fact, I wanted to talk about one of my favorite Tecolote's artists, Colombian illustrator 

Lucho Rodrìguez. His lovable stylized creatures (Charley Harper definitely comes to mind) are not exactly a new

find for me, since I have owned his Qué Monos for the past three years, but this time I discovered many more. 

Rodriguez began his career in Bogotá as graphic designer with an international advertising agency that 

gave him the opportunity to travel to Europe and New York. Later he opened a graphic studio in Caracas, 

but during the Venezuelan economic crisis he retired from advertising and dedicated himself to drawing animals.

His first children's book Abzoo was followed by more volumes dedicated to the depiction and 

celebration of wildlife, including Animals of Mexico, Birds of Mexico, Beetles and Wild animals, 

which was published last August in the US by Random House.