Seasons of the Bear

Noriko Senshu, Midsummer bear

Sarah Maycock

Gerry Turley

Yevgeny Charushin

Annegert Fuchshuber, Zwei und mehr

G. Nicholas, Year in the woods, 1984, thanks to polny_shkaf

Rob Dunlavey, Bonne Nuit Petit Ours

Janusz Grabianski, 1961, thanks to Manon Gauthier

 Rumen Skorchev, Bulgarian Folk Tales, 1979, thanks to Book Graphics

Nicola Bayley

Anna Emilia Laitinen, Winter Is Ending

Sue Tirrell

Gianluca Folì

 Arnold Lobel, Red Fox and his Canoe, 1964, and Brian Wildsmith, The Lazy Bear, 1974,

thanks to my vintage book collection in book form

Lizzy Stewart

Sandra Dieckmann

Sunday Safari - Lots of Goats

Józef Wilkon

Nikolai Tyrsa, illustration from Kozlic (Little Goat), 1923

  Yevgeny Charushin, This is how they are

 Felix Hoffmann, The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids, 1957, via Curio Books

John Burningham, thanks to Children's Illustrations

Eileen Mayo, illustration from Animals on the farm

thanks to The Alphabet of Illustrators

Bruno Gambone

Charles Keeping, illustration from The nanny goat and the fierce dog, 1973

thanks to bookvart

 Lisa Congdon, Mountain Goat

Louis le Brocquy, Garlanded Goat tapestry, 1949-50

Dominique Pouchain

Solomea Loboda, linocut from Ukrainian folk Rhymes, thanks to polny shkaf

Suzy Sharpe, British Alpine Goat

Simone Rea

Sunday Safari - A walk in the woods

So I placed the apple pie in a basket, put on my red riding hood

and went to visit grandma's little cottage in the forest...

Illustration by Mohieddine el-Labbad from The Wise Tortoise,

thanks to my hair has turned grey's flickr stream

Two woodcuts by Jing Wei, thanks to My love for you Is a stampede of horses

Animal Matreshkas by Irina Troitskaya, thanks to Kickcan and Conkers

Two Bird limited edition prints by Josh Brill, thanks to Grain Edit

4 hand printed Owl Gocco Coasters from Kerry Beary's etsy shop

La reine des bois by De Beaux souvenirs, thanks to The Art Room Plant

Tile from the moonlit forest series by Xenia Taler, thanks to The Art Room Plant

Jake by Jacob Escobedo, thanks to 22:blog

Suzuky Tiaki, thanks to Milk Tooth

Yevgeny Charushin, bookends for Mochnatye rebjata (The hairy kids), 1929

Red fox, illustration by Sebastiano from our book In the Forest

Shika by Justin Nelson, thanks to My love for you Is a stampede of horses

Bahman Dadkhah, illus. for Poems for Children (Iran 1972), thanks to A journey round my skull

...and I had the most wonderful time,

with a little help from my friends

The animal books of Yevgeny Charushin

Yevgeny Ivanovich Charushin (1901–1965) was one of the greatest masters of Russian children's book

 illustration in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Vjatka, he studied in Leningrad under Arkady Rylov,

 and was greatly influenced by Vladimir Lebedev and Ernest Seton-Thompson. He had a great love

 for animals, and an extraordinary ability in observing and expressing their inner and outer life.

 His style is marked by a particularly delicate reproduction of texture and of the animal's habits,

 as well as their natural environment. He worked on the children's journals Murzilka (from 1924), Yozh (1928-35)

 and Chizh (1930-41), and illustrated works by Maxim Gorky, Samuil Marshak and other children's writers.

 He was an excellent writer too, and produced his own decorative and refined animal books

 (e.g. Volchishko i drugiye, 'The little wolf and others', 1931; Medvezhata, 'The bear cubs', 1944; Pro Tomku,

 'About Tomka', 1957). He also reproduced his animal world in lithography and small-scale china work.

illustration from Vas'ka, Bobka i krol'cicha (Vas'ka, Bobka and the rabbit), 1934

two pages from Scur (The hawfinch), 1930

illustrations from Raznye zveri (Ferocious animals),1931 and Vol'nye pticy (The free birds), 1929

two pages from Detki v kletke (Babies in cages), written by Samuil Marshak, 1935