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“The Color Kittens” illustrated by Alice and Martin Provensen, 1950′s

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Foxwood Tales by Cynthia and Brian Paterson

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Vintage 1950s Storybook Illustration A Mouse Goes Shopping Mr and Mrs Twiddletoes Ivy L Wallace

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Playhour 1959 (Front Cover) (by GALE47)

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autumn

A Child's Garden of Verses

by Robert Louis Stevenson illustrations by Ruth Ruhman 1965

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A parade of Easter Bonnets from "A Very, Very Special Day" - written by Frances Ullmann DeArmand, illustrated by Tom Vroman (1963).

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October

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(via Need a House, Call Ms. Mouse: Progressive Vintage Children’s Book Starring a Female Architect | Brain Pickings)

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October illustration by Elsa Beskow

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Aesop’s Fables

Louis Untermeyer

Gorgeous vintage illustrations for Aesop’s fables – some of humanity’s most influential storytelling and moral thought – by Alice and Martin Provensen

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Good little girls always show marked deference for the aged. You ought never to ‘sass’ old people unless they ‘sass’ you first.

by Mark Twains

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advice to little girls by Mark Twains

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