~Watty Piper

The best known incarnation of the story
The Little Engine That Could was written
by "Watty Piper", a pen name of Arnold Munk,
who was the owner of the publishing firm Platt & Munk.
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Arnold Munk was born in Hungary, and as a child,
moved with his family to the United States,
settling in Chicago. Later he moved to New York.
Platt & Munk offices were at 200 Fifth Avenue
till 1957 when Arnold Munk died.
Arnold Munk, used the name Watty Piper as
both an author of children's books and as the
editor of many of the books that
Platt & Munk published.
He personally hired Lois Lenski to illustrate
the book. This retelling of the tale The Pony Engine
appeared in 1930.
The first edition attributes Mabel C. Bragg as
the originating author. However, Mabel C. Bragg,
a school teacher in Boston, Massachusetts,
never claimed to have originated the story.
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In 1954, Platt & Munk published another version
of The Little Engine That Could, with slightly
revised language and new, more colorful illustrations
by George and Doris Hauman
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Copyright © Alexander Jansson
Plain Kate by *enigma-astralis

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"I believe in pink.
I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner.
I believe in kissing, kissing a lot.
I believe in being strong when everything
seems to be going wrong.
I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls.
I believe that tomorrow is another day
and I believe in miracles."
— Audrey Hepburn

~Wallpaper…

Vintage Illustrations used as Wallpaper?

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Where did all my comments
and my good cheers go?
Sorry People
I did not delate them…
for sure!

                

Remember Anne Shirley:
Tomorrow is always Fresh...

this is a good cheer, isn’t it?

With many Thanks to Teresa, from Portugal
Illustration by Shiori Matsumoto

Many Thanks to all of you
for the prayers
and the sweets thoughts coming this way!
It makes me feel much better!

Although I had never talk about myself on this blog,
I would like to inform you this…

I will end this blog for a while
(I don’t know for how long)
for a few different reasons, such as

I am not feeling oké
the death of my ex is
taking me back to memory lane
and those memories are not good at all,

my health fails me,
day after day I feel worse.
and on top of that ..
my best friend dumps me for no reason!
and even won’t talk to me..

and even more shit seems
to happen to me,
all at this same time,
and frankly
All in all, is it
Just a little bit too much for me!

In the mean time
I am lucky to have Richard
who will help me to pick up the pieces
and take care of me!

So please remember me in your prayers?
Love XXX Anna

~Harold Knight

by Harold Knight
(English 1874-1961)

Art by Beatrix Potter
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Have a Lovely

Weekend!!!

XXX

~Alice

You've got to watch this video to see this clever
Alice in Wonderland iPad book in action.
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I'm certainly ready for an iPad!
What about you?

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by Amelia Jane Murray,
and HERE
With thanks to Philip

 

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The Easter Rabbit by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

The Bumper Book; A bumper crop of good stories and poems to grow on”
Illustrated by Eulalie
Edited by Watty Piper
1946
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Through the sunshine,
through the shadow,
down the hillside,
down the meadow,
little streams
run bright and merry,
bursting with the news
they carry,

singing, shouting,
laughing, humming,
"Easter's coming,
Easter's coming!"
by Aileen Fisher~

Have a wonderful easter weekend!

~Peder Severin Kroyer

 

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Peder Severin Kroyer ~ Summer Evening at Skagen,
(The Artist’s Wife with a Dog on the Beach),
oil on canvas.

Peder Severin Kroyer was a Norwegian-Danish painter.
He is one of the best known and beloved, and undeniably
the most colorful of the Skagen Painters, a community
of Danish and Nordic artists who lived or worked
in Skagen, Denmark. Kroyer was the unofficial leader
of the group. Kroyer painted many beach scenes
featuring both recreation life on the beach
(bathers, strollers), and local fishermen.
The model for Summer Evening at Skagen
was Marie Kroyer, the beautiful wife of the painter.

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~Rie Cramer

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A vintage mermaid book illustration
by Rie Cramer. (Dutch)

~Patricia Beeman Ardley

by Patricia Beeman Ardley,
(c.1930)

~Sunday Poem

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     Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune--without the words,
And never stops at all,

And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.

I've heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
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Poem by Emily Dickinson
Art byTheo Van Hoytema
1902 (detail)

Wishing you a Lovely Sunny Weekend

~Hugh Thompson

1920 Hugh Thompson ~ Illuminating…
the dusky mirror; from The scarlet letter,
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, New York

~Alice

© Brandi Milne

~Donna Green

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~Gustaf Tenggren

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by Gustaf Tenggren

Rapunzel by E.F. Harrison

When I undo the knotted mass,
Fathoms below the shadows pass
Over my hair along the grass.
O my golden hair!

~ by William Morris

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A Portrait of Princess Marthe Bibesco
by Giovanni Boldini

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!
ENJOY!!!

~Map of Narnia

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LINK HERE for the ones with poor eyes!
Thanks Philip ;o)

~Kiss the Frog!

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~Coleen Ball

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Take risks: 
If you win, you will be happy;
If you lose, you will be wise. 
~Author Unknown

~Jacques-Louis David

by Jacques-Louis David (French 1748-1825)
~ Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine (detail)

David was a highly influential French painter in the
Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent
painter of the era. In the 1780s his cerebral brand
of history painting marked a change in taste away
from Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity
and severity, heightened feeling chiming with the moral
climate of the final years of the ancien régime.
.READ MORE HERE!

~Louis Icart

by Louis Icart (French 1888-1950)

~Nicolaas Van Der Waay

by Nicolaas Van Der Waay (Netherlands 1855-1936)
~ Orphan Girls in a Hallway

HAVE A WONDERFUL WARM WEEKEND!!!

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Art by Frederic Leighton (English 1830-1896)
The Countess Brownlow

by Daniel Grhartz
(American 1965-)

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Have a wonderful sunny week!
I will be gone for a few days!

~Alphonse Mucha

 

by Alphonse Mucha (Czech 1860-1939)
~ Madonna of the Lilies

~Heinrich Vogeler

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Heinrich Vogeler (December 12, 1872 – 1942)
was a German painter, designer, and architect.
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Vogeler was a central member of the original artist
colony in Worpswede, which he joined in 1894

He was born in Bremen, and studied at the academy
of arts in Düsseldorf from 1890–95.
His artistic studies during this period included
visits to Belgium and Italy.
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Heinrich Vogeler. Girl with Cat (Mädchen mit Katze). 1914.

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He made book illustrations in an art nouveau style,
and executed decorative paintings for the town
hall of Bremen shortly before traveling to Ceylon in 1906.
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~Pat Gamwell

by Pat Gamwell

~Erin Kelso

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Art by Erin Kelso
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~Helen Jacobs

by Helen Jacobs (British 1888-1970)
~ The Mermaid Girl

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