Tom Phillips (1937–2022)
I am the happy possessor of the second edition of A Humument. Looking at any page is an inspiration.
Raymond Briggs (1934–2022)
Writer and illustrator of The Snowman (1978), among many other books.
Eric Carle (1929–2021)
Artist and author of countless books for children.
積ん読, Berlin
2004, 2009, 2018: it’s time to read Jason Lutes’s Berlin.
From a title page
A Funk & Wagnalls logo.
A is for Artichoke
Sally Rightor Parks’s A is for Artichoke (Pasadena: Water Works, 2014) is a book of fifty-two paintings, two for each letter of the alphabet.
Getty Publications Virtual Library
Free PDFs!
An Aldine House title page
Art by R. W. A. Rouse.
A Bodley Head title page
Art by E. H. New.
Bodley Head catalogue
Art from an 1897 catalogue.
WCW for young readers
“A River of Words: The Story of William Carlos Williams, by Jen Bryant and Melissa Sweet (Eerdmans Books for Young Readers, 2008), is the work of a writer and an artist with a genuine feeling for Williams’s work.”
Bernard Waber (1921–2013)
He wrote and illustrated the Lyle books.
Blue October
WPA poster: “A good time to Read!”
Two goose books
In 1994, George Bodmer made a picture book for his daughter. And now she has made one for him.
Penguin Great Ideas, fifth series
New covers
JANUARY (WPA Art Project)
A Year of Good . . . . Reading Ahead
The Vacation Reading Club
1939 WPA poster