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Anyway, below are most (I’m sure I’ve forgotten a few) of the books I read over the past year that weren’t reviewed here at
BWATE?And, as always, please feel free to suggest some great reads for me in the coming year. :)
T.J. Forrester – Black Heart on the Appalachian Trail
Oh, we’ve done plenty of Halloween books over the years, and we have a fine selection of them out this season and on our backlist. But the creepiest and most terrifying book our company has ever published isn’t a Halloween book at all.
It’s this book:
Published in 1945 with an exclusively black-and-white pallette, Time to Eat presents “correct ideas on a proper, balanced diet for children,” according to the flap copy. Clearly, though, the book does far more than kill all the fun of mealtimes, and must have been used as an instrument of terror.
Scroll down, and brace yourself. What follows are some of the most haunting images ever produced for children.
Yes, just “stew.”
I think the use of shadow in this one is especially effective.
Oh, no.
And now, the worst one of all:
THE HORROR.
Happy Halloween, everyone!
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A few months ago we were going through our very ancient art archives that date back to the old days when the company fully owned all the illustrations. The archives have been a treasure trove: among other things, we unearthed the complete artwork for a long out-of-print Flicka, Ricka, Dicka book, which we’re reissuing this spring.
And then one day, I was talking with Laura, our archive manager, who was just unwrapping a stack of illustrations that hadn’t seen the light of day in decades. They were pen-and-ink on paper, with tissue paper on top showing where color overlays would be printed. We didn’t know the book, but something about the style looked familiar. Something about that girl in the bonnet…
“Oh my goodness!” I said. “It’s Helen Moore Sewell! She did the original art for the Little House books!” (Which were published by Harper in New York, but if you know me at all, I have something of an interest in those books.)
The artwork we were looking at was for a title called Peter and Gretchen of Old Nuremberg by Viola M. Jones, which we published in 1935.
Little House on the Prairie was also first published in 1935. You can see here that she used a similar style with the color overlays.
It’s really something to see this original art up close, and to see Sewell’s technique. The art on the right is the tissue paper showing the overlays. It must have been photographed and made into color plates.
And the cross-hatching is exquisite!
Helen Sewell’s illustrations in
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While exploring the David Foster Wallace archive, Justine Tal Goldberg unearthed a poem most likely written as a grade school assignment.
According to The Guardian, Goldberg was researching for an article when she found a thick folder labeled “very early DFW.” It also contained illustrated short stories, school reading lists and essays on baseball with smiley faces scribbled on the margins.
The article offers these lines from the adolescent Wallace (pictured, via) poem: “My mother works so hard / so hard and for bread. She needs some lard. / She bakes the bread. And makes / the bed. And when she’s / threw she feels she’s dayd.” What do you think? (via Publisher’s Weekly)
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What does Osama bin Laden really want from us? Listen to this podcast and find out.
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Romance your date with a Monk-inspired duet, or have a private boogie-woogie party in honor of your singledom. This Valentine’s Day The Oxford Comment presents a crash course on the music that speaks all kinds of love, from one of the men that knows it best.
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Kevin Whitehead is long-time jazz critic for National Public Radio’s Fresh Air and has written about jazz for many publications, including the Chicago Sun-Times, Down Beat, and the Village Voice. His latest book is Why Jazz?: A Concise Guide.
(Psssst! Wanna hear more blues? Then check out The Ben Daniels Band.)
The temperature was -6 here in Chicago yesterday morning. There are ice ruts on the sidewalks, salt stains on everyone’s shoes, and on every street corner is a dirty mound of rock-hard snow fifteen feet high.
You know what we need? TULIPS. And primary colors. And a pet white duck named “Kleintje.”
Klees and Kleintje, by Marian King, was published in 1934 and illustrated by Elizabeth Enright, who just a few years later would win the Newbery medal for her book Thimble Summer. (Enright began her career as an illustrator, but then became better known as a writer.) With its red and blue scalloped page borders and colorful depictions of old world Holland, Klees and Kleintje has to be one of the cheeriest-looking books we’ve ever published.
I mean, look at these endpapers.
Even the winter scenes are bright.
I know this is a lot of images for a blog post, but what else are you going to do, look outside? It’s FEBRUARY.
All that yellow is starting to help, isn’t it?
One last look—at the gorgeous, hand-lettered title page:
Feel a little happier? (Now that’s really bibliotherapy for you.)
Remember, there’s supposed to be only 5 more weeks until spring, at least according to the groundhog. Hang in there, and happy Friday!
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What’s The Oxford Comment?
In Spring 2010, Michelle Rafferty and Lauren Appelwick (you can read their bios here) decided it was time Oxford University Press got a podcast, and by September, The Oxford Comment was born. Reporting at special events, live on the street, and from the “studio,” each episode features commentary from Oxford authors and friends of the Press.
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February 3, 2010
What IS beauty anyway?
- “The Icon” – Duane Roller discusses the ongoing influence of Cleopatra’s beauty (although we don’t really know what she looked like!)
- “The Beauty Bias” – Deborah Rhode discusses the pervasiveness of appearance discrimination.
- “The Fat-o-sphere” – Margitte Kristjansson and Jessica Jarchow talk body politics, “headless fatties,” s-heroes, and Glee!
- “The Safety Pin” – Fashionistas at FIT discuss whether or not clothing makes you beautiful.
January 13, 2011
Part 2 of this series looks at the ongoing debate between science and religion.
- “Why are Unicorns Hollow?” – Steve Paulson, Executive Producer of NPR’s To the Best of Our Knowledge, shares clips of interviews with famed atheist Richard Dawkins and chimpanzee advocate Jane Goodall.
December 21, 2010
Happy Birthday to the jazz legend who would be turning 103 this December 25th.
- “Hi-De-Ho” – BBC Producer Alyn Shipton on the pioneering ways of Cab Calloway.
- “Trickeration” – Vince Giordano plays the bandleader at Babette’s nightclub on HBO’s Boardwalk Empire. Michelle pays a visit to the real nightclub where Giordano keeps the music of the Jazz Age alive.
These first few weeks of writing “2011″ on your checks sure makes you feel like you live in the future, doesn’t it? Which is why this seemed like a perfect time to show you this gem from our archives—The Wonderland of Tomorrow, by Jean Carper, published in 1961:
Behold, a vision of the 21st century! Or maybe 1987. Whatever—it’s just another day in The Future, where rockets are launched daily and all the highways run in only one direction.
This book’s table of contents lets you know what’s in store for us. Say hello to non-stop sunshine, long retirements, and robot overlords!
Here’s some more glimpses of the future (be sure read the original captions, too!)
Some day man’s urge to ride a giant magical steam iron will be satisfied.
“You kids settle down! Don’t make me turn the hovercraft around!”
Clearly those eleven trees out the window are THE LAST TREES ON EARTH.
And one day they might even be able to help us complete these enormous crossword puzzles.
Happy Friday, everyone! May your weekend be a wonderland.
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By Kathleen Spale
When most people think of summer vacation, they think of time spent on beaches in the sun with sand and water spreading endlessly around them. So when I heard about an opportunity to sit in a small, fluorescent-lit room surrounded by 22 bins of 1621 dusty, old books for my summer vacation, you can imagine what I said…..
You bet!
As a librarian, illustrator, and longtime lover of children’s books and history, to me, creating an Albert Whitman archive was the summer adventure of a lifetime. Books since 1919…..never knowing what each one holds…..It was like the warehouse at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark…..crate after crate of new surprises…..
Would I find the ark of the covenant?
Well, not quite, but, as Wendy has highlighted on this blog on many Fridays, I was able to unearth many gems…..some funny, some strange, almost always interesting.
I know that on occasion, out of my room full of bins and books, the staff at Albert Whitman probably heard a gasp or a giggle. I couldn’t help myself. On one hand, I found first editions of books illustrated by Randolph Caldecott, Crockett Johnson, James Montgomery Flagg, J. C. Leyendecker, Maj Lindmann, and Kurt Wiese and 1940s editions of The Gingerbread Man, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and Pecos Bill while on the other hand, I found the trio of Mother Goose Etiquette Rhymes, Mother Goose Health Rhymes, and Mother Goose Safety Rhymes, which made certain to illustrate the consequences of a little boy touching a live wire!
Every week, I felt like Marty McFly in the movie Back to the Future, entering a time machine, strapping on a safety belt, and launching into a time long ago and not so long ago. One week, I was in World War II. The next week, I was in the Wild West. Some books even dared to glimpse into the future. Would the year 2000 bring flying cars and use of a new invention called plastic? Would libraries of the future have reading rooms and lists of books to facilitate child development?
But as with all good things, as the clock winds down, the books lay still, and the bins remain empty, my great adventure through history is ending. And as I slowly depart my time machine here at Albert Whitman, I am amazed that while so many aspects of children’s books have changed since 1919, like word count, color replication, and story subtlety, some things haven’t changed at all.
Throughout the Albert Whitman archives, one series that I continually found was called “Just Right Books,” and this name made me think. Isn’t that concept still so true? Aren’t we all as children and adults still looking for the just right book? When we are gloomy, when we are cheerful, when we are bored, we are always looking for the one book out there that is just right for each of us in our particular place and time. And I, for one, am grateful to report that after some months here at Albert Whitman, it is clear that Albert Whitman still has a dedicated staff who devote so much time and energy trying to find these “just right books” for everyone.
As I leave these archives too, I can’t help but ponder, what will people in the future say about the archives o
And by “mystery illustration” we don’t mean this image comes from a Boxcar Children book. We mean we found this little bit of artwork in our archives a couple weeks ago, but have yet to identify the book it came from!
It appears to be from the 1950s. And the longer you look at it, the more mysterious the scene becomes:
Just what are those children doing?
This weekend, watch out for zombies, vampires, ghouls, and deceptively wholesome-looking children carrying evil kittens. Happy Halloween!
Remember when air travel was so glamorous that you had to wear a tie, even if you were a kid?
Well, okay, neither do we. But in 1942, when we published Let’s Fly to Bermuda by Marjorie Barrows, it was the norm, at least for exceedingly lucky twins like Nan and Toby. (Though you have to wonder why a family who can afford to jaunt off to tropical islands is taking a bus to the airport. Couldn’t Mother revise her fancy hat budget to allow for a cab now and then?)
But never mind, because once they board the plane the family has to endure the usual airline hassles—you know, tablecloths, three-course meals, attendants in stylish pillbox hats waiting on your every need.
(Remember this image next time you fly. Try not to weep into your packet of pretzels.)
And look, Nan has her armrest all to herself!
Do you suppose the in-flight movie was Casablanca? Sigh.
All right, that’s enough nostalgia and envy for today. Happy Friday!
Nothing like a week’s worth of posts about grammar and punctuation to make you feel like you’re in school again. So it seems only appropriate to feature Jene Barr’s Good Morning, Teacher (note the comma!) for this week’s archive. Published in 1957, with illustrations by Lucy and John Hawkinson, Good Morning, Teacher makes us remember a time in our lives when we were just learning to master words and learn the rules of all those tidy little sentences. Sometimes we all could stand to have an encouraging voice like Miss Bell’s in our heads.
Barr, whose papers are in the De Grummond Children’s Literature Archive, was a teacher herself for many years, and her books for Whitman, with titles like Mr. Zip and the US Mail and Paul the Policeman, are the quintessence of 1950s children’s books. There’s something strangely poignant about the simple text of these stories. The moment conveyed in the spread below, for instance, feels almost Raymond Carveresque, except that it’s as quietly hopeful as those little plants on the windowsill.
Oh, Miss Bell. Somebody loves you. Somebody loves us all.
Happy Friday!
We’ve been publishing books since 1919, which means we have one heck of an archive. Every Friday we highlight one of our more unusual, beautiful, or hilarious titles unearthed from the storage bins.
This week’s selection is Skip Sees the Signs, by Virginia Novinger; illustrated by Beth Wilson, 1953.
WHOA THAT'S A LOT OF SIGNS
Does Skip see the signs of a world gone mad? The cover would seem to indicate this. And yet inside the book, to our delight, we find a gorgeous and orderly world rendered in that lush 50s Technicolor palette that we love. It still looks dreamy after all these years. Look at those cars!
What are you doing this weekend? Maybe you’d like to take a drive over to Big Town and grab a bite at that new joint, Hot Dogs?
Me, too, my friends. Me, too.
We’ve been publishing books since 1919, which means we have one heck of an archive. Every Friday we highlight one of our more unusual, beautiful, or hilarious titles unearthed from the storage bins.
In 1940 we published Mother Goose Safety Rhymes, a slim hardcover with illustrations by Marjorie Peters and modified nursery rhymes by C.M. Bartrug, who in the preface wrote: “It is the purpose of this book to teach little children correct Safety Habits through the Mother Goose Rhymes and Characters.”
On further inspection it’s clear that it is also the purpose of this book to scare the hickory-dickory-hell out of children, as quite a few of the hapless protagonists of these verses meet fates rivaling those of the Gashleycrumb Tinies. Oh, dear.
YIKES!
It seems we’re not the only ones to rediscover this grim little volume: a few years ago someone put every rhyme online so that new generations could be freaked out instilled with Safety Habits. We’ll just put up a few of our favorites here:
NOW HE'S GONE
WE ARE NOT KIDDING ABOUT THE MATCHES
DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU
Have a good weekend, everyone! STAY SAFE OR ELSE.
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From the Archives: Mother Goose Safety Rhymes, last added: 7/31/2010
In comparison, Fluffy Mackerel Pudding looks pretty good
It’s the fish on toast that got me! yech.
That is the shivering kind ofscary.