vintage take 2 - mittens for kittens!

Mittens for Kittens and other Rhymes about Cats, chosen by Lenore Blegvad and illustrated by Erik Blegvad. (1974)

I love the pics but also the old cute rhymes and poems! Lucky my mum is a poet :)











I wonder if there are many husband & wife writer/illustrator combo's today for kids books?

Vintage - sew-it-yourself!

I'm joining in on Pip's "week of vintage children's book illustration"! Visit here to see how to join in.

Here are a few pages from "The Lucky Sew-it-yourself Book" by Camille Sokol and illustrated by Bill Sokol (1970)











This book is a fun instructional book on how to make so many things from one little square of fabric! from a scarf, little bag, apron, pin cushion and a pillow for your doll. 48 pages in total. It even teaches you a few stitches, and some ideas on how to make a sewing box. What a great book!

I noticed someone else has loaded one up to flickr, with a different front cover, but the illustrations are still the same.

I bought mine last year at the annual Bendigo Easter Festival "y-men's second hand book fair". This is a definite "to do" over the Easter break - I've been every year to this book fair with my mum for as long as I can remember, and find great books at cheap prices - where can you still find books for 10 or 20 cents?? Although am quite sad as I will be missing out this year and next (but my husband is very happy that I won't be bringing home even more books). Am off to Darwin for Easter to spend time with our brother and his family, and then next Easter we will be in the UK!