Wednesday, 20 March 2024

From Back When by Joan Lennon

One of the delights of grandparenting a toddler is rediscovering the books you read to your children when they were tiny and even that your parents read to you. The raggedy ones. The old-fashioned ones. The ones where the author wasn't quite so bothered with word count, and the illustrator had a style that wouldn't fly today. Here's a brief tribute (in no particular order) to just a few of them - lovely to see you again, old friends!

A Little Old Man 
written by Natalie Norton and illustrated by Will Huntington (1959)

Angus and the Ducks 
written and illustrated by Marjorie Flack (1930) 
(and all the other Angus stories)

Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy
written and illustrated by Lynley Dodd (1983) 
(and all the other Hairy Maclary and friends' stories)

London Bridge is Falling Down 
illustrated by Peter Spier (1967)

Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel 
written and illustrated by Virginia Lee Burton (1939)

What are some of your old friends for small people?


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