Elk & Moose

Two illustrations from Kalevala-kuvitusta by Pirkko-Liisa Surojegin  

M. Gershenzon, Zveri v peshchere, 1931

 Brad Woodfin, Caribou

Tatiana Kapustina, Year in the woods, 1978, and V. Chaplya, Taiga, 

thanks to Book Graphics

Sarafina Fiber Art

 Arnold Lobel, Red Fox and his Canoe, 1964, 

thanks to my vintage book collection in book form

 Lisa Larson, 1950s-60s

N. Ustinov, Karacharovsky house, 1984, thanks to the fabulous polny_shkaf

(dear Russian readers, please let me know if Google translator 

and I have messed up again)

Kurt Wiese, Honk the Moose, 1936

Oriol Cabrero

Lennart Helje

Winter Sports

 Tony Meeuwissen

Mary Tourtel, Rupert the Bear

Harrison Cady, 1928, thanks to Kat in the Cupboard

Benjamin Rabier, Gedeon fait du ski, 1938

 Barbara Cooney, Where Have You Been, 1952

vintage German matchbox, 1961, thanks to Agence Eureka

Alain Grée, 1966, thanks to maptitefabrique

Bill Peet, Buford the Little Big Horn, 1967, thanks to Michael Sporn Animation

Lillian Hoban, Mr. Pig and Sonny Too, 1977,

thanks to the wonderful my vintage book collection in book form

Kestutis Kasparavicius

Jennifer Bell

Lu Green

Janik Coat

Wool bulb

Vincent Mathy

Calef Brown

Stella Baggott

Ale + Ale

Sunday Safari - Taiga

Diana Sudyka, Taiga

Today's post was inspired by the chilly northern winds sweeping through Florence,

and by Werner Herzog's documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, about a group

 of fearless and resourceful people who really know how to survive in the cold.

Just like these wonderful animals...

Feodor Rojankovsky, Panache l'ecureil, 1939, thanks to The Visual Telling of Stories

T. Kapustin, The first sun, 1987, thanks to polny_shkaf's amazing visual library 

Nathalie Lete, Le Jaseur

Kate McLelland, thanks to Kickcan & Conkers 

Mikhail Belomlinsky, Wonders under the feet, 1967, thanks to bookvart

Ene Pikk, Kärp, 1981, thanks to vaula

V. Kanevsky, Winter Poems, 1984, via Hanna Rivka

Nikolai Tyrsa, Snezhnaya kniga, 1926

Gwen Keraval, Le fils qui sauva son père

Georgy Nikolsky, Year in the woods, 1978 and

Nikita Charushin, My first zoology book, 1984, thanks to Book Graphics

Animalsleepstories, The Old Caribou

Beastly Dilemmas

I fell in love with Harriet Russell's work through her charming children's books

published in Italy thanks to Edizioni Corraini. It's not just the delightful 

illustration style; her surreal humour, visual puns and creative concepts

make her a very special author and illustrator...

A Colouring Book for the Lazy is full of black and white images,

for those who don't like to color in.

"Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said ‘one can’t believe impossible things.’

‘I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it 

for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." 

from ‘Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There’ by Lewis Carroll

This delightful conversation between Alice and the White Queen is the starting point for

 'Sixty Impossible things before Lunch', a book full of impossible pictures and questions such as

 
'Which came first, the chicken or the egg?', 'Where is the middle of nowhere?',

and 'What does the universe look like?'

Harriet studied art in Glasgow and completed her MA at Saint Martins College in London.

 Since then, she has authored six illustrated books and worked for many commercial clients

 including The New York Times and Channel 4. She regularly exhibits in London and New York.