The Birds & the Flowers

via Agence Eureka

Warm rays of sun, birdsongs and flowers everywhere...

what a wonderful Sunday to hang around in the garden

Carlos Merida, The Bird, 1947, via 50 Watts

János Kass

Károly Reich 

 L. Mironov, De naykrasche mіstse sul zemlі?, 1973

John Alcorn 

Su Blackwell

Nathalie Lété

Becca Stadtlander

Carolin Loebbert

Helen Dardik

Meg Hunt

Red Hong Yi

Sasha Prood

Geninne

Anne Kelly

Helen Musselwhite

Louise Gardiner

Be my Pet

Josef Capek, Histoires de Chien et de Chat, 1929

Vladimir Lebedev

Will and Nicolas, The Christmas Bunny, 1953 and Bill Sokol, Cats Cats Cats Cats Cats, 1958

thanks to Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Lovesv

Alice and Martin Provensen, Karen's curiosity, 1963

Werner Klemke, 1965?

Don Madden, One Kitten for Kim, 1966, and Arnold Lobel, The Quarreling Book, 1963,

via my vintage book collection (in blog form)

  

Mary Blair, late 1960s

Charles Keeping, Charlie, Charlotte and the Golden Canary, 1967, via Curio Books

Judith Kerr, Mog the forgetful cat, 1970

Ezra Jack Keats, 1970

Jitka Kolínská, Lucie a zázraky, 1980, thanks to Josefskrhola

Nicoletta Ceccoli, Oscar y los gatos lunares, via Cornabou Revista Digital

Irina Andreeva

Isol, Pantuflas de perrito

Yoko Tanji

Hideaki Kawashima

The Little Friends of Printmaking

Little women grow up

This large format illustrated version of Andersen's Thumbelina was published in 1978.

It was created by Nicole Claveloux, a French artist that I am planning to feature again soon

on Animalarium. I love this book for its unusual structure, which alternates pages of text

with spreads packed with sequences of small illustrations that can be visually read in  

a variety of ways.

The illustrations are beautiful and funny, and the abundance of details on each spread

is very appealing to children and visually oriented adults like me.

But I love this version also for its feminist ending, in which Thumbelina refuses to marry the King of Flowers

choosing instead a life of freedom and travels in the company of her swallow friend.

Click on the photos to view them at full size!

Streamlined Zoo

Henri Creuzevault, The Jungle Book binding, 1925

I am working on a lesson about the graphic design of the 1920s and 30s,

hence the inspiration for this elegant Art Deco menagerie.

For more designs from the era, you may take a tour here and there.

 Edward McKnight Kauffer, poster for the London Underground, 1923, 

thanks to Cabinet Magazine

Rembrandt Bugatti, Nubian Lion, ca.1910 

Jean Carlu, Aquarium de Monaco, 1926, thanks to Pignouf

Japanese sculpture, 1928, thanks to Paris Originals

 Edmund Bartlomiejczyk, 1929

Art Deco Llama made from Glass and silver, thanks to Lost Found

Dinner menu from the Orient Line Orion, 1937, thanks to Bonito Club

Fábrica de Loiça de Sacavém

 Japanese New Year's Card, 1932, thanks to Aqua-Velvet

Edouard-Marcel Sandoz

Ceramiche Rometti, Rondini, 1936

An Angel Fish from Penrose magazine, 1930,

thanks again to The Visual Telling of Stories