~Margaret Evans Price

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Margaret Evans Price 1888-1973 was a
children's book illustrator and author.
She was born in Chicago, but her family soon
moved to Nova Scotia and then settled
on the east coast, Massachusetts and later
New York. It is interesting that her talents were
discovered early. Her first illustrated story was
sold to the Boston Journal when she was just 12.
Her studies took her to the Boston Academy
of Fine Arts and Paris.
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Another interesting point in the life of Price,
is that she was married to Irving Price who was
the cofounder of Fisher Price Toy Company
along with Herman Fisher.
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A watercolor painted by Mark Hampton.
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~John Bauer

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John Bauer - Illustration from
The Seven Wishes by Alfred Smedberg

From Swedish Folk Tales Illustrated by John Bauer

~Charles Perault

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Illustraties uit het boek: Charles Perault
"Der kleine Daumling und andere Marchen"
Helaas niet mijn boek..;o(
HIER GEVONDEN.
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~Ralph Caldecott

Images from an antiquarian children's book:
'The Hey Diddle Diddle Picture Book
by R. Caldecott'
published in London by
Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd.
the same company that published
all of the Beatrix Potter books.
,.  .. Bye, Baby Bunting!
. Father's gone a-hunting.
Gone to fetch a rabbit-skin
.To wrap the Baby Bunting in.
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Illustrations by Ralph Caldecott
(1846-86),
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   The King was in his Counting-house,
Counting out his Money.
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The Queen was in the Parlour,
Eating Bread and Honey.
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The Maid was in the Garden,
Hanging out the Clothes;
There came a little Blackbird,
And snapped off her Nose.
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But there came a Jenny Wren
And popped it on again.
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~Ray Caesar

http://www.raycaesar.com/gallery/2009

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Illustration by H. Paul from a talking
book adaptation of The Happy Prince
by Oscar Wilde, London, 1948

The greatest thing you'll ever learn

Is to love and be loved in return.

~ From "Unforgettable with Love" by Natalie Cole

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Howard K. Elcock - “Di-vanity,”
published in The Bystander, April 29th, 1925

Have a wonderful Weekend

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M. C. Woodbury -
McCallum Silk Hosiery advertisement, 1921

~J.J. Grandville

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J. J. Grandville (3 September 1803, Nancy 
† 17 March 1847, Vanves, lângă Paris),
was the pseudonym
of  French caricaturist and illustrator
Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard. His early carreer
consisted of regular contributions of highly
satirical political caricatures for a series of
Parisian periodicals. He garnered a great deal
of popularity for this work but following the
reintroduction of censorship of caricatures in
France in 1835, he pursued a notable career as
a book illustrator. He illustrated a number of
standard works gaining a reputation as the premier
illustrator of works such as Gullivers Travels
and Robinson Crusoe. His fantastical ilustrations
featured a wonderful variety of inanimate objects
brought to life, mixed up animal creatures
(which he refered to as Metamorphoses),
crazy characters and an imaginative creativity that
predated and influenced the school of Surrealism.
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It is the far reaching influence of his work which
is of most interest. He influenced not only the
surrealists as mentioned above but also political
cartoonists, comic book illustrators and  fantasy artists.
His work is known to have influenced not only the
illustrator of the Alice in Wonderland tales John Tenniel
but their author Lewis Carrol. Look closely at his
work and you may also see something of his influence
in the animated films of Walt Disney.
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http://loverforbooks.blogspot.com/
2010/03/jean-jacques-grandville.html
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There are 175 of Grandville’s illustrations available
online at the wonderful Visipix site HERE.

~Bill Carman

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Bill Carman - Alice’s Tears

~Music Break!

Eurovision 2009 Winner
Alexander Rybak

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Years ago, when I was younger,
I kinda liked a girl I knew.
She was mine, and we were sweethearts
That was then, but then it’s true
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I’m in love with a fairytale,
even though it hurts
‘Cause I don’t care if I lose my mind
I’m already cursed.
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Every day we started fighing,
every night we fell in love
No one else could make me sadder,
but no one else could lift me high above.
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I don’t know what I was doing,
when suddenly, we fell apart
Nowadays, I cannot find her
But when I do, we’ll get a brand new start
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I’m in love with a fairytale,
even though it hurts
‘Cause I don’t care if I lose my mind
I’m already cursed
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She’s a fairytale
Yeah…
Even though it hurts
‘Cause I don’t care if I lose my mind
I’m already cursed.

~Anton Lomaev

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Illustraties van Anton Jakovlevitsj Lomaev
Geboren 13 maart 1971 in Leningrad Rusland.
Hij studeerde af aan het Academisch Instituut.
Repin in 1998.
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Illustrations by Anton Jakovlevitsj Lomaev
Born 1971  March 13  in Leningrad Russia.
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