Eva Johanna Rubin, Klipp-Klapp-Theater (1996) Wonderful (if slightly awkward to film with just one hand, sorry) 🙈 #picturebook #illustration #noveltybooks

New blog up Manchester Rare Books about my nonsensical collecting habits! MRB has a great range of books across all genres. Do have a look. I dare you to come tumble down the rabbit hole with me! www.manchesterrarebooks.com/book-blog/yq... #BookCollecting #RareBooks #ChildrensBooks #bookhistory

Reader, I did it!!👊 www.linkedin.com/posts/susana...

Delighted that the keynote during my week @calrbs.bsky.social is about the wonderful, kick-ass librarian Belle da Costa Green, by Phillip S. Palmer, Curator of Literary and Historical ms at the Morgan Library.

Just a couple of weeks until my specialist course on the History of Children’s Literature @calrbs.bsky.social begins! As part of this course, we have been invited to give a short talk on a topic of our choice, in my case, nonsense illustration. (A thread 🧵) #CALRBSC #RareBooks #Nonsense

This is an illustration from the first book I remember reading on my own. The translated text was awful, but the artwork stayed with me for decades. 🧵

Mmm...Petro Cuniculo doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it? (Less so for Spaniards like me 😅) #childrensbooks #illustration #bookhistory

One of the most comprehensive studies that I can find on this topic... Any other similar suggestions? #childrensbookillustration #bookhistory #illustrationhistory #childrensliterature #picturebooks

📢Over the moon to have received a full scholarship to attend Jackie Stallcup's course on the History of Children's Literature @calrbs.bsky.social this Summer!!! Anyone else here planning to attend? I'd love to connect!👋 #rarebooks #childrensbooks #childrensliterature #bookhistory #grateful #happy

Join us, Thursday, May 1 at 7:00 EST for the Julian L. Lapides Lecture "Seventy Years a Bibliophile" with Justin G. Schiller. Register at www.americanantiquarian.org/node/12912

Happy birthday, Hans! You are in good company here. Also, great biography! #hanschristianandersen #williamheathrobinson #internationalchildrensbookday #illustrationhistory

Wonderful! José Carlos de Brito e Cunha, known as J. Carlos (1884-1950) Brazilian cartoonist, illustrator, and graphic designer, introduced by Pete Beard #illustrationhistory youtu.be/uEpIFRm-TSg?...

Iban Barrenetxea #illustration #picturebooks

Ukranian children's book illutrator Vyacheslav Legkobit (1941-197?) #illustration #picturebooks #history

A look at some of the most beautiful and unusual examples from the first 100 years of the “modern” book cover, since the rise of publishers' bindings circa 1820: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...

Was there ever a better start? 1915 Arthur Rackman illustrated edition of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

If you are interested in #illustrationhistory, #childrenbooks #posterdesign this is one of the best ways to spend whatever spare time you may have. youtube.com/@petebeard?s...

Tomorrow is #nationalillustrationday2024 so I'll take the opportunity to ask: is there anybody in this lovely blueskyverse researching the HISTORY of children's book illustration? Give me a shout so I can follow you! Here is a picture of one of my bookshelves for context. #childrensbookhistory

Working on a new online exhibition dedicated to quirky early 20th century ABCs called "X stands for nothing" with material from the David Blamires' collection of children's books @theJohnRylands Library Gordon Brown is a genius!😁 #childrensbooksillustration #bookhistory #modernism