Valorie Fisher: January 2015

Friday, January 30, 2015

Snapshot #22

date unknown

Thursday, January 29, 2015

Tiled Wall Lisbon

Endpapers for The Happy Hunter by Roger Duvoisin

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Happy Birthday Lewis Carroll

Alice in Wonderland Notched Building Cards

Monday, January 26, 2015

BENI MONTRESOR

Two stupendous illustrations from

The Witches of Venice by Beni Montresor, 1989

Montresor, an Italian author/illustrator, opera and film director and set designer,

won the Caldecott in 1965 for May I Bring a Friend?

Friday, January 23, 2015

GERALD ROSE

I passed by his garden, and marked, with one eye,

How the Owl and the Panther were sharing a pie:

The Panther took pie-crust, and gravy, and meat,

While the Owl had the dish as its share of the treat.

When the pie was all finished, the Owl, as a boon,

Was kindly permitted to pocket the spoon;

While the Panther received knife and fork with a growl,

And concluded the banquet by ---

'Tis the Voice of the Lobster

"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose—
What made you so awfully clever?"

"You Are Old, Father William"


"If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year. Do you suppose," the Walrus said, "That they could get it clear?" "I doubt it," said the Carpenter, And shed a bitter tear. The Walrus and the Carpenter

Finding inspiration in the delightful whimsy and color of illustrations by
GERALD ROSE
from The Walrus and the Carpenter and other poems, 1969
by Lewis Carroll