Bedtime Stories

Karel Franta

Abécédaire de Babar, 1934

Willy Schermele, 1941

Maurice Sendak, Little Bear, 1957

Elisabeth Brozowska, Isidore L'Hippopotame, 1969

Wendy Watson, Father Fox’s Pennyrhymes, 1971

Alice and Martin Provensen, The tiger asks Blake for a bedtime story, 

from A Visit to William Blake's Inn, 1981

Christopher Denise

Marco Somà

Kitty Crowther

Puikeprent

Rilla Alexander

Nicolas Duffaut 

Delphine Durand

Christian Roux

Rockin' Raccoons

Sweet Bella

Raccoons are one of the things I miss from living in the Californian Sierra foothills. 

I had never met these animals before moving to the States, and was very amused 

and fascinated by their frequent night visits to our porch to feast on the cat food.

I was especially amazed was the dexterity of their paws, which looked like tiny hands.   

Naturally, our cat was not very happy about this, and hid in the house until they left...

Aurelius Battaglia, The Fireside Book of Favorite American Songs, 1952

Feodor Rojankovsky, Frog Went A-Courtin, 1955, thanks to Animation Resources

Claude Humbert, Littlest Raccoon, 1961, thanks to Golden Gems

 Arnold Lobel, Red Fox and his Canoe, 1964, and Brian Wildsmith's Wild Animals, 1967

thanks to my vintage book collection (in blog form)

another lovely raccoon by Brian Wildsmith from What the Moon saw, 1978, 

thanks to the art of children's picture books

Charley Harper

C.S. Neal

John W. Golden

Neiko Ng

Sara Renzulli

Paul Barnes

 Akitaka Ito

Sarah Maycock

Darla Jackson

 Swig

Wild Cycles

Toti Scialoja

During next week, Firenze is going to be invaded by the World Cycling Championship.

While we citizens are feeling apprehensive since it's not clear how and if we're going to be able

 to move around and get to work, given that many of the races pass right through the center of the city,

at least the event has pushed the mayor to give us more bike lanes and newly asphalted roads.

I really hope it's going to be an interesting and fun experience for all...  

Happy Cycling!

1903 postcard biking pup wackystuff

Barbara Cooney, Where have you been?, 1952

 Paul Galdone, Anatole, 1957

Károly Reich, The How Many Book, 1972

Kristyna Litten

Jan Kuiper, Vis a Vis, 1962, thanks to Arthur van Kruining

Pikku Dot

Regina Lukk-Toompere

Peter Cross

Mique Morichi

Matte Stephens

Alyssa Nassner

Claudia Palmarucci

Coco de Paris

Edward Gorey

Gus Gordon

Margherita Micheli

Amy Dover

Sebastiano Ranchetti

Natsuo Ikegami

Puikeprent

Rob Dunlavey

Sophie Fatus

Thereza Rowe