Time to Fly

Otto Nielsen was a Danish painter and watercolorist who worked as an illustrator for books, magazines and posters.

From 1954 to 1976 he also produced a series of beautiful travel posters and calendars for Scandinavian Airlines System,

a company founded in 1946 with the merge of four Scandinavian companies from Sweden, Norway and Denmark. 

Its first destination was New York, then Bangkok and Buenos Aires, and in 1954 
SAS became the first airline to operate a trans-polar route. 

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

Penguin Parade

Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, KÔ et KÔ, 1933

After these long quiet weeks, expect to see lots more picture-based posts during the holidays,
as I plan to upload a good number of themed image galleries that have been sitting in my hard drive
 too long. Let's start with some of my (and apparently everyone's) favorite birds! 

Marjorie Flack, Willy Nilly,1945

G.Snegirev, About the Penguins

Dale Maxey, The Wild and Woolly Animal Book, 1961

Leonard Weisgard, Penguin's Way, 1962

Charley Harper

Jacques Hnizdovsky, 1972

Krystyna Wojciechowska, Gdyby…, 1975, via 50 Watts

Dick Bruna

Mario Mariotti

Svjetlan Junakovic, Bienvenue Chez Nous

Sandra Dieckmann

Alexis Marcou

Sarah Maycock

Mook

Yusuke Yonezu

Yoto Imoko

Diana Sudyka, Island of Adelies

Painting and sculpture by Guido Pigni

Joëlle Jolivet

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A Woman's Work

Beatrix Potter

Dear followers, I apologize once again for the recent lack of posts,

but this semester I taught one more course that usual, and soon realized

that I had to give up some of my leisurely activities, including blogging, 

to be able to stay on track keep focused. My lessons ended yesterday, 

and I am really looking forward to almost a full month of vacation.

Of course, now there's plenty to do around the house...

Fritz Baumgarten, Das Hochzeitsfest im Wiesengrund

Hilda Boswell

B. Twardowski (?), 1925

Boris Kalaushin, 1958

Evgenii Rachev

Anatoli Michailovich Eliseev, Story of the stupid mouse

Feodor Rojankovsky, Frog Went a-Courtin', 1955

Barbara Cooney, The Crows of Pearblossom, 1967

Bernard Waber, An Anteater Named Arthur, 1967

Yusuke Yonezu

Svjetlan Junakovic

Marjolein Bastin

Peter Gut

Agata Dudek, The Crows of Pearblossom

Alberto Montt