tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9386179879451835932024-03-18T17:04:43.089-05:00Vintage Kids' Books My Kid LovesSeeking children's books of old from library/yard sales, used book stores, ebay, etc.Burgin Streetmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473712188879858952noreply@blogger.comBlogger1440125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938617987945183593.post-771846048456624382022-08-04T13:32:00.008-05:002022-08-04T13:38:47.270-05:00Need a House? Call Ms. Mouse! Reprint NewsComing back from the dead to let you all know that <a href="https://amzn.to/3zx1kBo" target="_blank">this book</a> is being reprinted in the spring from NYR Children's Collection. <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3OZsdDE" target="_blank">Need a House? Call Ms. Mouse!</a></i> by George Mendoza, illustrated by Doris Susan Smith, was originally published in 1981 by Penguin and is one I have periodically looked out for, ever since reading about it in ye olden blog times <a href="http://designboner.blogspot.com/2009/10/open-book-need-house-call-ms-mouse.html" target="_blank">here</a> and a few years later it started popping up everywhere else, like <a href="https://slate.com/human-interest/2013/09/animal-architecture-in-the-george-mendoza-s-out-of-print-children-s-book-need-a-house-call-ms-mouse.html" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/10/10/need-a-house-call-ms-mouse/" target="_blank">here</a>. Already preordered!
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The short of it is that</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">—</span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">surprise</span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">—</span><span style="font-family: Arial; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am white. I grew up in a very progressive house in the south in the 1970s, with a mother born in the 1940s who was a civil rights activist from very early on. I grew up in South Carolina, and I don’t think I need to tell anyone what sort of racial climate that time and place was to spend a childhood in. My mother was very socially aware and active. She once made a cheerleader walk a mile beside the car at an away game for using a racial slur. She taught African American history in public schools. She worked with Black women who made baskets and quilts and taught them they were not just home goods but art and helped them begin to get their work displayed in museums. My mother constantly used her voice to uplift her Black friends, many who consider us family. My sisters and I might have been the only kids we knew who actively told kids at school not to use the N word when so many still used language like that, openly, in the day to day. </span></span><p></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-e1630a54-7fff-46c4-b90a-4dc6f6327212"><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fast forward to today. I now live in Texas in a predominantly white neighborhood. I have exactly one Black person in my life who I can honestly call a best friend. I live inside a liberal white bubble in a neighborhood inside of another white bubble, and because I am surrounded by an amazing group of women who do speak out about human rights and gun laws and women’s rights, it often feels like that’s enough. But during this time I’ve become keenly aware that it isn’t. I started asking myself what this community can do to be better? What conversations do white people need to be having with our kids now to help them understand why it is important to support Black Lives Matter not just in words but in actions? All I knew was that it’s important to keep talking. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As a white person from a progressive background living in a progressive white bubble, I was lulled into thinking I was not a racist, but as I’ve read more and more about microaggressions and the racial history of America and what it means to be not just racist but antiracist, I realized I have fallen drastically short. During the first few weeks after George Floyd was murdered, I was afraid to use my voice. I’m just a white lady, what do I know? If I stand up, what if I don’t know what I’m talking about? But it <i>is</i> important to stand up and speak up even if you sound stupid and don’t fully know what you’re talking about. It <i>is</i> important for white people to keep having these conversations with our friends and family even if they are uncomfortable. It <i>is</i> important for white people to take a hard look at themselves and see the parts of their own lives and histories that they want to pretend don’t exist. I know change only happens when we listen and educate, so I started reading and asking, what as a community can we do to actively do better? Barring forcing everyone to take Sociology 101 and watch every relevant movie on Netflix, what could we do collectively to help move the needle? This was a genuine ask on my part and I started asking everyone I knew. At this point you might be asking, what the hell does any of this has to do with vintage kid’s books? </span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The answer is, a lot. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Books might not be the strong hold they one were, but for all of us of a certain age, they were the window into the world. And when I look back at all these books I’ve loved, I see a lot of white faces. I see lots of stories rooted in colonial ideas. I see a childhood spent not seeing Black people or indigenous people in books, or if I did, they were gross stereotypes that even as an adult with a child and a blog about children’s books I did not fully recognize or understand. I remember a post on this blog a millions years ago that featured a stereotyped American Indian child and a weird outfit swap with a small cowboy, and getting blasted about featuring the book. At the time I didn’t fully understand the issue with it but respected the comment enough to take the post down, but in retrospect, I was naive not to fully get the offense. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Now, I am not here to write about the lack of diversity in children’s books as there are lots of people and scholars way more knowledgeable on the subject and whole organizations devoted to this cause. But in 2007, I created a blog that I know thousands and thousands of people looked to for inspiration without ever, specifically, seeking out the BIPOC POV. And sadly, in the world of books, that is what you have to do to help children form a realistic and unbiased view of the world. And even though I had the best intentions at heart and tried to be respectful, just by the nature that old + American often = racist, there are probably some vintage books that are better left forgetting. Honestly, I am loath to look back too deep for fear of what cringe worthy, offensive things I might have said and the subtly (or not-so-subtly) racist books I might have unknowingly loved or condoned. </span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So last night, I took a little time and pulled together </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/35FWYOV5IG0S8?&amp;sort=default&_encoding=UTF8&tag=httpwwwvintag-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=ae042f9f3e6367739cd4de4cd417d7d9&camp=1789&creative=9325" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">an Amazon list of childrens and young adult books from a BIPOC POV</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. Even though this blog is largely stagnant, I do still make a small amount being an Amazon affiliate (usually enough to pay to keep my domain name active), but I pledge to donate the full proceeds (and match them if I can) of what I make off the purchase of these books for the foreseeable future to </span><a href="https://diversebooks.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">We Need Diverse Books</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a non-profit, grassroots organization of children's book lovers that advocates essential changes in the publishing industry to produce and promote literature that reflects and honors the lives of all young people. If I am missing something on the list, let me know and I will add. If something on this list is inappropriate and I should delete, let me know that, too. If there are organizations or articles I should be researching and reading, drop those in the comments as well. And if you are looking for more resources to find more diverse books, try the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://diversebookfinder.org/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Diverse Book Finder</a></span><span face="" style="background-color: white; color: #4d5156; font-family: arial, sans-serif;">—</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">more than just avoiding stereotypical portrayals, they are focused on helping find great picture books featuring BIPOC. So order from </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/35FWYOV5IG0S8?&amp;sort=default&_encoding=UTF8&tag=httpwwwvintag-20&linkCode=ur2&linkId=ae042f9f3e6367739cd4de4cd417d7d9&camp=1789&creative=9325" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">my Amazon link</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to see donations kicked back to We Need Diverse Books or skip the middleman/conglomerate and order </span><a href="https://lithub.com/you-can-order-today-from-these-black-owned-independent-bookstores/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">directly from one of these Black-owned bookshops</span></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> here in the U.S. </span></span></p><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: small; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And if you ever come across an old post of mine that highlights a book that should be canceled, I am A-OK with blowing some shit up, even if it is a beloved children’s book classic. There might not be anything us Generation X kids and the millennials that followed can do to undo the mistakes our parents made, but maybe the children born from now until forever can grow up in a better world than ours being accustomed to seeing faces of all shades and sizes looking out at them from the pages of a book. </span></p></span>Burgin Streetmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473712188879858952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938617987945183593.post-74235350065636790882019-02-26T15:39:00.003-06:002019-02-26T15:39:38.287-06:00RIP Tomi<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Still mourning the loss of Tomi Ungerer.<br />
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If you haven't checked it out, read <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2013/07/tomi-ungerer-interview.html">my interview with Tomi</a> from a few years back. :( And the fabulous <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/11/obituaries/tomi-ungerer-dead.html"><i>New York Times</i> obit.</a><br />
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<b>told by <a href="https://www.anthonyburgess.org/" target="_blank">Anthony Burgess</a>; illustrations and story by Fulvio Testa</b><br />
<b>Doubleday, 1979</b><br />
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Anthony Burgess is most famous for having written the novel <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0393312836/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0393312836&linkCode=as2&tag=httpwwwvintag-20&linkId=83ce0a23b8a77c28ebb9dfeb89b1f11d" target="_blank">A Clockwork Orange</a> </i>(that was then perhaps even more famously turned into <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1419832255/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1419832255&linkCode=as2&tag=httpwwwvintag-20&linkId=84a70822cca92d24c9ca73bc26b02d39" target="_blank">a movie by Stanley Kubrick</a>)<i>.</i> However, it seems that twice he delved into the world of children's books, both to delightful effect. The first, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486813460/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0486813460&linkCode=as2&tag=httpwwwvintag-20&linkId=fb507b5daf6bb7d36fc66a2487c790b0" target="_blank">A Long Trip to Teatime</a></i>, was reprinted by Dover this year with Italian artist Fulvio Testa's original illustrations, but sadly <i><a href="http://amzn.to/2B7JXaE" target="_blank">The Land Where the Ice Cream Grows</a></i> is still out of print. Burgess wrote the book based on a story by Testa, and as you can guess, it is about a world made of ice cream. The story begins like something out of a Wes Anderson movie.<br />
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<i>Jack and Tom and I were having dinner one day. There was a big, red-faced man sitting alone at the next table, and he'd just finished eating a steak as big as an elephant's ear. The waiter said to him, "Would you like some ice cream now, sir?" The man nearly exploded and said, "Ice cream? I don't want to see ice cream ever ever again!" Naturally, we pricked up our ears at this and we spoke to him. He told us about the land where the ice cream grows and how to find it.</i><br />
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Thus, a blimp is rented for 523 ping-pongs a month, and the two lead an expedition to find this land of the ice milk. The book is full of flavorful puns that match diary against <i>dairy</i> and desert against dessert and call out the days of the week in eatable (frozen appropriate) fashion. Munchday, Chewsday, Wethersday, Thawsday, Fryday, Shatterday, and (or course) Sundae.<br />
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<i>Were we all going mad, or did we really see what we thought we saw? Because these great big lumps with cherries on top seemed to move, swaying in the ice cream breeze.</i><br />
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<i>A terrible thing ice cream. The most terrible thing in the world.</i><br />
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There is a cute twist about Jack and Tom at the end that makes the story even more adorable (as if mountains that mist whipped cream, rivers full of chocolate sauce, giant popsicles and an even bigger, ice cream-eating monster--who can only say one word, Gelato!-- were not enough).<br />
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A true gem of a book, if you happen upon a copy in the stacks.<br />
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To get the full story on the collaborations between Burgess and Testa, check <a href="https://www.anthonyburgess.org/object-of-the-week/object-week-illustration-fulvio-testa/" target="_blank">out this page</a> of The International Burgess Foundation. It gives the entire 411 on this unforgettable match-up plus a lot on Burgess and Testa's short-print pamphlet (only 180 copies were made) from 1977 called <i><a href="https://www.abebooks.com/Christmas-Recipe-Burgess-Anthony-Plain-Wrapper/20394849932/bd" target="_blank">The Christmas Recipe</a></i> that is in heavy collector demand.<br />
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Special moment of linger to the bios in the back of the book where we find that Burgess loves his <a href="http://www.dormobile.org.uk/" target="_blank">Dormobile</a> and Testa (surprise) loves ice cream.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over the next few days I am going to be culling the herd to make way for new Christmas books, so I am reviving </span><a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/vintagekidsbooks?ref=search_shop_redirect" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: center;" target="_blank">my Etsy shop</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: center;"> for a small window of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><b>The Story of Zachary Zween</b></i> </span>by Mabel Watts and Marylin Hafner; for sale <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/579674727/the-story-of-zachary-zween-by-mabel?ref=shop_home_active_1" target="_blank">here</a>;<span style="color: #333333;"> reviewed </span><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2009/03/story-of-zachary-zween.html" target="_blank">here</a><span style="color: #333333;">.</span></span></div>
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<span itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>Allumette</i></b> by Tomi Ungerer; for sale <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/565652596/allumette-by-toni-ungerer-vintage?ref=shop_home_active_7" style="font-weight: 500;" target="_blank">here</a>; reviewed <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2010/03/allumette.html" style="font-weight: 500;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span itemprop="name" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><i>The Secret Three</i></b> by Arnold Lobel and Mildred Myrick; for sale <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/579446393/secret-three-vintage-childrens-book-by?ref=shop_home_active_8" style="font-weight: 500;" target="_blank">here</a>; reviewed <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2010/04/secret-three.html" style="font-weight: 500;" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></div>
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Just poking my head in to say Jim Flora's <i><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2008/10/grandpas-ghost-stories.html" target="_blank">Grandpa's Ghost Stories</a></i> is back in print from <a href="http://feralhouse.com/%EF%BF%BCgrandpas-ghost-stories/" target="_blank">Feral House Press</a>. Happy happy day! Still THE spookiest of all the children's books ANYWHERE!<br />
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You're welcome. Original post <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2008/10/grandpas-ghost-stories.html" target="_blank">here</a>.Burgin Streetmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473712188879858952noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938617987945183593.post-75959299227310993972017-04-12T11:10:00.001-05:002017-04-12T11:19:06.602-05:00Four Fir Feet (and other things)Rising from the grave here because I am just past spring break and shelves were cleaned off, and I was reminded of just how many books there are still to share. Every time I turn around, a beloved author is passing away; their books like tiny secrets lost in time. There will be great authors who will live forever like Seuss or Margaret Wise Brown, but for every one of those there are a thousand others who fade from view. Their wonderful spirits vanished to the bins at Goodwill, or worse, withdrawn and thrown away.<br />
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This summer it will be ten years since I started this blog. So much has happened in that time. Publishers have taken more of an interest in out-of-print books that begged to be reprinted. Used booksellers have gotten more savvy about what people are willing to pay for old, beloved favorites. The internet has made it easy to price books accordingly, so that even the shelves of my favorite thrift stores are filled with overpriced gems. Gone are the days of 25 cent classics and incredible finds. Gone are the days when no one was shopping the book section at my local flea market. San Antonio, like many other American cities, is much too hipster for all that now. Sadly, that was what made this blog so easy to begin with. All I needed was a five dollar bill, a son who loved being read to, and an imagination open to looking beyond dingy library binding. It helped that I had <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Thingummery">a best friend</a> who shared my passion for old children's books and had an even more amazing collection than my own.<br />
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I couldn't start this blog now without a much larger budget and more time to pick over and buy premium Etsy scores. All the fabulous out-of-reach design things moms like me pined for ten years ago are now being knocked off and sold at Target for a fraction of the cost, and all the vintage treasures that were so bountiful and inexpensive have been discovered and driven up in price. My son has moved on from picture books for the most part defaulting to his obsessive audio book collection, graphic novels, and middle school required reading like <i>Shiloh</i> (in Spanish) and <i>Walk Two Moons</i>. My BFF moved back to New York and now stretches past kids' books to troll library sales and handpick vintage <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/Thingummery">design books for resale</a>, and I went back to work in publishing. The end result being little to no time for this hobby right here.<br />
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But somehow, I always return. This spot reflects the hours I spent cross-legged on the floor with my son taking him to far off lands and introducing him to monsters who <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2009/03/where-wild-things-are-trailer.html" target="_blank">dance wild on islands</a> and children who learn to <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2008/02/switch-on-night.html" target="_blank">switch on the night</a>. This is the place where we met a fox <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2009/10/fantastic-mr-fox.html" target="_blank">who was indeed fantastic</a> and spied on <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2009/05/three-robbers.html" target="_blank">three robbers who befriended an orphan girl</a>. This corner of the interwebs will always be the sacred space where I held my son in my arms squirming and squealing... "Again again, Mommy. Read it again." Every book on these pages is a memory of the best years of my life. I will cherish it always and mourn those moments when it was just me and him and all we wanted was the perfect 32 pages and all we had was all the time in the world.<br />
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Books are everything. With all that is wrong with the world, we were lucky enough to get lost in them for a while.<br />
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That said, <i>Four Fur Feet</i> popped into my view this last week and had me grieving again <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/arts/dance/remy-charlip-dancer-and-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html" target="_blank">for the loss of Remy Charlip</a>, lamenting the publishing urge <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Four-Feet-Margaret-Wise-Brown/dp/078680002X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1489872460&sr=8-1&keywords=four+fur+feet" target="_blank">to always re-illustrate</a>, and falling in love again with the words of Ms. Brown. My son might be growing up, but I'll always come back if I find something worth remembering.<br />
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<i><b><a href="http://amzn.to/2nlS13U" target="_blank">Four Fur Feet</a></b></i><br />
by Margaret Wise Brown, pictures by Remy Charlip ~ William R. Scott, INC., 1950<br />
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What makes this book incomparable, ingenious, and absolute magic is that you never see the animal depicted in these pages. We only see his feet. His fabulous four fur feet!<br />
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<i>See the four fur feet</i><br />
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<i>They are the feet part</i><br />
<i>of a furry animal.</i><br />
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<i>Follow the animal's feet</i><br />
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<i>When you come to a picture that looks wrong side up,</i><br />
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It is plays on the form like this that made Charlip such a delightful illustrator and a true artist. Simple. Playful. Elegant. And absolutely silly.<br />
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The feet appear throughout the book as if they are actually walking around the world until at last our creature sets down to rest and dream.<br />
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If you can get your hands on the December 2000 issue of Vanity Fair, there is an article about Ms. Brown that is spectacular! Not to be missed.
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<b><i><a href="http://amzn.to/1DtO0xY">It's Raining Said John Twaining</a> ~ N. M. Bodecker ~ Atheneum, 1973</i></b><br />
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Danish nursery rhymes translated and illustrated by the author of the forgotten favorite <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2011/04/miss-jasters-garden.html"><i>Miss Jaster's Garden</i></a>. So happy I stumbled across his look in the library. I love the thin lines and intense colors, so elegant and specific.<br />
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<i>"It's raining," said John Twaining. </i><br />
<i>"Keep me dry!" said John Rye. </i><br />
<i>"No I will not," said John Willmot. </i><br />
<i>"You must go!" said John Slow. </i><br />
<i>"Go where?" said John Square. </i><br />
<i>"To Jack Crowning," said John Browning. </i><br />
<i>"What for?" said John Sore. </i><br />
<i>"Buy some coats!" said John Oats. </i><br />
<i>"How many?" said John Penny. </i><br />
<i>"Ten should do," said John Drew. </i><br />
<i>"Want to bet?" said John Wett.</i><br />
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Guinea pigs and queens. Miss Price and her mice. Trout with applesauce. This book has it all.
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<i>On a green, green hill </i><br />
<i>I saw two rabbits come. </i><br />
<i>One he was a piper; </i><br />
<i>the other played a drum,
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In this week's edition of who talks faster than a librarian, <a href="http://tpr.org/post/source-does-seuss-shadow-leave-many-authors-dark-even-now">here I am</a> talking about the new Dr. Seuss,<i> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0553524267/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0553524267&linkCode=as2&tag=httpwwwvintag-20&linkId=7W2LAVJB4VJMQDRI">What Pet Should I Get?</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=httpwwwvintag-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0553524267" height="1" style="border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;" width="1" /></i>Burgin Streetmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473712188879858952noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938617987945183593.post-74514604296677204722015-07-11T15:31:00.001-05:002015-07-11T15:33:49.623-05:00The Meanest Squirrel I Ever Met<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I keep coming back to <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2015/01/margaret-bloy-graham-rip.html">Margaret Bloy Graham's death</a> earlier this year. Seems every time I turn around I unearth another of her books that I never shared when I was keeping this blog up daily. This one might actually be one of my all time favorites. Of course, anytime there is an unsavory, mysterious character in a children's book, it usually tends to hit the reread pile around these parts. We're spooky like that. But fear not, for all it's shady-characterness, it still falls firmly in the rated G realm. Plus it has this sweet shot of Margaret and Gene in the back flap.<br />
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<i>Nibble was a little squirrel who lived in the woods with his father and mother. On Thanksgiving morning, his mother brought a basket up from the storeroom. In the basket were pecan nuts, walnuts and hazelnuts.
"Can I play with them?" Nibble asked his mother.
"Well," she answered, "if you're careful, you may. But remember, these are not just ordinary acorns. This is our Thanksgiving Dinner."
"I'll be careful," promised Nibble.</i><br />
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In what might be the ultimate "don't play with your food" morality tale, after a few rounds of "Nuts in Rows", "Nuts in Circles", and, the classic, "Nuts in Little Piles", Nibble looks up to see a stranger coming down the path. Ignoring the warning of "stranger danger" always seems to come up in forest stories such as this, so it should come as no surprise when said stranger swindles poor little Nibble out of his holiday dinner, pecans and all!<br />
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But it's when the squirrel family is forced to get their feast elsewhere that the true story moves into action. Recognize what's on the menu at The Squirrel Cafe?<br />
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Another fabulous tale from the husband and wife team that brought us <i><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2008/04/harry-and-lady-next-door.html">Harry the Dirty Dog</a></i> and <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2007/08/be-nice-to-spiders.html">Be Nice to Spiders</a>. May they rest in peace.</div>
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<b><i>Kathryn Hitte ~ Mel Crawford ~ Golden Press, 1964</i></b><br />
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I don't know about you kids, but we are in full-on spring mode here, just minutes away from the Texas summer. I know lots of you are still suffering in the grips of mother winter, so here's a ray of sunshine to help light the darkness. Nothing can get you jazzed about the upcoming season than Tammy and her little sister Pepper's wild island adventures, Big Golden Book-style.<br />
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What fun, indeed! Sunken ships and light houses, cute boys and seashells, and a scary set of circumstances that gets redeemed through Morse Code. Complete with an International Morse Code key in the back. Imagine! Like Nancy Drew just with more beach and double the blond.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">A few days ago I received a very thoughtful e-mail from Roy McKie's son about this <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/65852-obituary-roy-mckie.html">father's passing.</a> In 2011, I was lucky enough to <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2011/01/roy-mckie-later-years.html">interview Roy</a> about his life and work.. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As I said then about him and <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2011/01/roy-mckie-later-years.html">the interview</a>... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">I might not have gotten all the facts here perfectly, but I've tried to convey a short history of an artist I admire so that his legacy can live on a bit longer. However, what I will set in stone about the man is this. Life is short. It's a beautiful thing to have used this life to create something that will live on longer than you. Something that brings joy to other people. We all make mistakes. We all make choices that lead us in one direction or another. But if nothing else, know and remember that Roy McKie was, and is, a kind man.</span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">There is no way that someone could so beautifully visualize a world full of happy children and smiling dogs and be anything but."</span></span><div>
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"Children’s book illustrator Margaret Bloy Graham, widely known for her depictions of Harry the Dirty Dog in a series of books by her former husband Harry Zion, died January 22 in Cambridge, Mass. She was 94." More <a href="http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/childrens/childrens-authors/article/65395-illustrator-margaret-bloy-graham-dies-at-94.html?utm_source=Publishers+Weekly&utm_campaign=d3164f9aae-UA-15906914-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0bb2959cbb-d3164f9aae-304885009">at Publisher's Weekly</a>.
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<b>Clyde Watson ~ Wendy Watson ~ Scholastic, 1971</b><br />
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The beloved nursery rhyme classic written and illustrated by two sisters from Vermont about the stories a father fox tells his brood of 15 kits. We've always loved this book in our house because of how each rhyme is accompanied by an illustration that fully and precisely tells the tale, often starring one or many of the fox children. A small and busy feast for the eyes.<br />
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Mister Lister sassed his sister<br />
Married his wife 'cause he couldn't resist her,<br />
Three plus four times two he kissed her:<br />
How many times is that, dear sister.<br />
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Ride your red horse down Vinegar Lane,<br />
Gallop, oh Gallop, oh gallop again!<br />
Thistles & foxholes & fences beware:<br />
I've seventeen children and none can I spare.<br />
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Thomas Thomas Tinkertoes<br />
Upside down & away he goes!<br />
He's off to call upon the Queen<br />
In blue & crimson velveteen.<br />
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<a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2015/01/great-post-holiday-give-day-4-gus-was.html">Gus was a Friendly Ghost</a> goes out to <a href="http://thehapahomestead.blogspot.com/">Liana</a>.<br />
<a href="http://wetoowerechildren.blogspot.com/">Arial</a> will be receiving <i><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2015/01/great-post-holiday-give-day-3.html">The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature</a>.</i><br />
<i><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2014/12/great-holiday-give-day-2-loretta-mason.html">Loretta Mason Potts</a> </i>now belongs to <a href="http://www.silvershoesandrabbitholes.com/">Danzel</a>.<br />
<a href="http://thekiralynncain.com/">Kira</a> wins <i><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2014/12/great-holiday-give-beast-of-monsieur.html">The Beast of Monsieur Racine</a>.</i><br />
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And because I never did post a final day and this whole thing has kinda been half baked! I am picking a special winner of a mystery grab bag of vintage books. And it's you, <a href="https://www.blogger.com/profile/13004006307871710784">cruelshoes1</a>.... Winners can send me their mailing info to webe(at)soon(dot)com.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yes! Day four of the Great (Post) Holiday Give is a new reprint from Purple </span>House<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Press of the classic </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1930900740/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1930900740&linkCode=as2&tag=httpwwwvintag-20&linkId=ORQMUSCF23GXP2EY" style="font-family: inherit; font-style: italic;">Gus Was a Friendly Ghost</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background-color: white;">There was once a friendly ghost, by the name of Gus, who lived in an old house in the country. Mr. and Mrs. Scott and their twins, Susie and Sammy, lived there too during the summer. Then autumn came and the Scott family left. Which meant Gus had nothing to do but sit around.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">One day, during a walk, he met Mouse, who was cold and hungry. "Come spend the winter at my house!" cried Gus.</span><br /><br /><span style="background-color: white;">Thus begins an unlikely but heartwarming friendship. First published in 1962, children have delighted in this story and other Gus the Ghost books for over fifty years. Seymour Fleishman's sweet, nostalgic illustrations bring Gus, the Scotts and Mouse to life.</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">So without further blah blah</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">, I will be giving away one copy of this sweet, spooky book. To be entered to win a copy, simply comment on this post by 11:59 PM CT Wednesday, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">January 7</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">. The winner will be announced the next day!!!! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;"><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2014/12/great-holiday-give-beast-of-monsieur.html">Great Holiday Give Day One: <i>The Beast of Monsieur Racine</i> by Tomi Ungerer</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Hey all. Welcome to day three of the Great (Post) Holiday Give! The give today is <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486498344/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0486498344&linkCode=as2&tag=httpwwwvintag-20&linkId=64YYHM54UFH45GXP">The Berenstain Bears' Big Book of Science and Nature</a></i>. Dover has reprinted my three favorite Berenstain books into one giant volume: <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2010/08/bears-almanac.html">The Berenstain Bears' Almanac,</a> <i><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2012/02/berenstain-bears-science-fair.html">The Berenstain Bears' Science Fair,</a></i> and <i><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2010/01/bearenstain-bears-nature-guide.html">The Berenstain Bears' Nature Guide.</a> </i>Nothing like the thin, morality paperbacks that make up the bulk of the Berenstain backlist, these books from the 1970s were massive tomes filled with busy illustrations, chock full of all sorts of useful nature and science information. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Sooooo without further yadda yadda yadda, I will be giving away one copy of this fat book of awesome. To be entered to win a copy, simply comment on this post by 11:59 PM CT Wednesday, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">January 7</span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">. The winner will be announced the next day!!!! </span></span><br style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"></span><span style="color: #222222; line-height: 18px;">The Great Holiday Give</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18px;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> will run through </span><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Wednesday </span><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">so be sure and check back each day to find out about a new vintage reprint and enter to win a different book. Good luck!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;"><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2014/12/great-holiday-give-beast-of-monsieur.html">Great Holiday Give Day One: <i>The Beast of Monsieur Racine</i> by Tomi Ungerer</a></span></span><br />
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And for slagging off the last few weeks... a little post-Christmas treat.<br />
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This, plus <i><a href="http://graphicnovelsmykidloves.blogspot.com/2015/01/father-christmas-goes-on-holiday.html">Father Christmas Goes on Holiday</a></i>.<br />
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Also by:<br />
<a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2009/08/childs-garden-of-verses.html">A Child's Garden of Verses</a><br />
<a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2009/06/professor-noahs-spaceship.html">Professor Noah's Spaceship</a><br />
<a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2010/02/maurice-maeterlincks-blue-bird.html">Maurice Maeterlinck's Blue Bird</a><br />
<a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2007/09/brian-wildsmiths-birds.html">Brian Wildsmith's Birds</a><br />
<a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2010/11/der-hase-und-die-schildkrote.html">The Hare and the Tortoise</a><br />
<a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2011/05/squirrels.html">Squirrels</a><br />
<a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2011/05/fishes.html">Fishes</a><br />
<a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2011/09/brian-wildsmiths-animals.html">Brian Wildsmith's Wild Animals</a><br />
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Burgin Streetmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13473712188879858952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-938617987945183593.post-36533701129572054692015-01-03T13:40:00.000-06:002015-01-03T13:40:10.792-06:00Great Holiday Give... to be continuedUnlike what some unsuspecting well wishers thought, I did not pass away over the holidays! Just merely got jammed up in the last minute minutia of it all. That said, the great holiday give will finish up anew next week, with three more gives on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday.<br />
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In the mean time, you can still throw your hat in the ring for the two gives that have already been posted.<br />
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Day one, <i>The Beast on Monsieur Racine</i>, <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2014/12/great-holiday-give-beast-of-monsieur.html">here</a>.<br />
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Day two, <i>Loretta Mason Potts</i>, <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2014/12/great-holiday-give-day-2-loretta-mason.html">here</a>.<br />
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Winners will be announced on Thursday, January 8.<br />
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Happy New Year!!!<br />
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The New York Review Children's Collection is the amazing publisher that brings long forgotten books back to life. They also have a <a href="http://www.nybooks.com/books/childrens-book-club/?insrc=adb">children's book club</a> where books arrive in mail all the year round just like the old days.<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />Today's Great Holiday Give is one of my favorite in their latest picks, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1590177576/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=1590177576&linkCode=as2&tag=httpwwwvintag-20&linkId=3MRCGCIKCVQDC4HT"><i>Loretta Mason Potts</i></a> by Mary Chase.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i>"<span style="color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.799999237060547px;">The poignancy of Peter Pan lingers over this fantasy, but it has its own special charm, the charm of unabashed fancy and resounding good sense, which made the author’s </span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.799999237060547px;">Harvey</span><span style="color: #333333; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23.799999237060547px;"> a favorite of adult audiences." </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Sooooo without further yadda yadda yadda, I will be giving away one copy of this book of magical worlds. To be entered to win a copy, simply comment on this post by 11:59 PM CT Wednesday, January 7. The winner will be announced the next day.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Great Holiday Give<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> will run through Wenesday so be sure and check back each day to find out about a new vintage reprint and enter to win a different book. Good luck!</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18.479999542236328px;"><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2014/12/great-holiday-give-beast-of-monsieur.html">Great Holiday Give Day 1: <i>The Beast of Monsieur Racine</i> by Tomi Ungerer</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My all time favorite <a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2013/07/tomi-ungerer-interview.html">Tomi Ungerer</a> book was reissued by Phaidon this past summer. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2010/01/beast-of-monsieur-racine.html">The Beast of Monsieur Racine</a></i>.</span><br />
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SUCH A BRILLIANT BOOK!</span><br />
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So it's only fitting that this would be my first pick for the Great Holiday Give! </span> (You know, that week before Christmas where I give away new reprints of insanely awesome vintage children's books?)<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My original post on the book from 2010 is </span><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2010/01/beast-of-monsieur-racine.html" style="font-family: inherit;">here</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. The new book is </span><a href="http://www.phaidon.com/store/childrens-books/the-beast-of-monsieur-racine-9780714860817/" style="font-family: inherit;">here</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. My interview with Tomi is </span><a href="http://www.vintagechildrensbooksmykidloves.com/2013/07/tomi-ungerer-interview.html" style="font-family: inherit;">here</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. And it's still not too late to order it in time for Christmas </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0714860816/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0714860816&linkCode=as2&tag=httpwwwvintag-20&linkId=52GG7B4SXHCCDEJE" style="font-family: inherit;">here</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Sooooo without further yadda yadda yadda, I will be giving away one copy of this magically creepy and fabulously wonderful book. To be entered to win a copy, simply comment on this post by 11:59 PM CT Wednesday, </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">January 7</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">. The winner will be announced the next day!!!! </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">This book was sent to me by the publisher to giveaway, but I don't think I need to tell you that this in no way educated my opinion of Phaidon, this book and/or the level of pure swank of either.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Great Holiday Give</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;"> will run through </span></span><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">Wednesday </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18.4799995422363px;">so be sure and check back each day to find out about a new vintage reprint and enter to win a different book. Good luck!</span></span></span><br />
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My! Have I been asleep at the wheel. I just realized we are a week out from Christmas and I haven't posted the Great Holiday Give yet. Whew. Forgive me.<br />
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