Cover images - the birds, the bees, the animals and trees

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Cover images - the birds, the bees, the animals and trees

12wonderY
mayo 8, 2019, 4:20 pm

Let's start with a bird.



Ain't he a handsome fellow?

2pgmcc
mayo 8, 2019, 5:22 pm

>1 2wonderY: Good start. Let us hope the standard can be kept up...evermore.

3Cynfelyn
mayo 8, 2019, 5:26 pm

 

Short, slightly sentimenal stories about animals, including tamed wild animals (kill the parent as a pest, keep one of the young as a pet - not much changed there then). Several of tamed animals came to unsentimental ends, probably too trusting, probably at the wrong end of a gamekeeper's gun, probably killed by the local otter hunt, ...

42wonderY
Editado: mayo 9, 2019, 3:44 pm

>2 pgmcc: **wink**

>3 Cynfelyn: Oh! I'd be snatching up Otter's Story. Great cover, and besides the otter is my totem animal.

52wonderY
mayo 9, 2019, 10:40 am

Here's another I'm glad to have in my collection ~

62wonderY
mayo 15, 2019, 3:48 pm

Let's do some plant covers today.





7fuzzi
Ago 27, 2019, 12:33 pm

>5 2wonderY: oh, my...that is lovely. As is #1, and #3, and...

Sorry I didn't see this thread three months ago. I bought a few TBSL books this week and was going to share, so here I am.

8fuzzi
Editado: Ago 27, 2019, 1:14 pm

This is one I've had on my shelves for a little while, unread...bought for the cover (shame on me!):



Maybe I should move it closer to the top of the TBR pile?

Here's an old favorite, cover and illustrations by the wonderful Kurt Wiese



The story is good, too.

And speaking of a good story with a great cover:



Jump-shy is a childhood favorite, a wonderful adult read, and has ink sketches by Paul Brown! Delight!

Addendum: that cover isn't high definition enough to show you why I love it, here's another better example of this illustrator's work:


Image from Rubylane.com, an auction house.

92wonderY
mayo 19, 2020, 6:25 pm

I've got four beautiful Myrtle Reed books, published by The Knickerbocker Press, my notes say Margaret Armstrong is the designer, though only one is marked "MA":







and will add this one, though it doesn't meet this thread's criteria

standing loom

10fuzzi
mayo 19, 2020, 6:51 pm

>9 2wonderY: nice designs.

11Sakerfalcon
mayo 20, 2020, 5:54 am

>9 2wonderY: Those are very beautiful.

12MrsLee
mayo 30, 2020, 12:37 pm

So pretty!

132wonderY
Jul 30, 2020, 7:57 am

This is on my wishlist:
Beauty in Common Things


14MissWatson
Jul 31, 2020, 4:09 am

That is lovely!

15pgmcc
Jul 31, 2020, 6:14 am

I am really enjoying the pictures of all these beautiful books.

16mnleona
Jul 31, 2020, 7:49 am

These are great. Thanks for posting.

17fuzzi
Ago 6, 2020, 1:38 pm

18asurbanipal
Editado: Sep 14, 2021, 7:07 am

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=lassie+wr%c3%b3%c4%87&form=HDRSC2&f...
Some foreign books become very popular in Poland, and then are published for 60 years in various editions, e.g., Eric Knight, Lassie Come-Home. Knight's second wife had a Polish maiden name, Brylawski.

19fuzzi
Sep 14, 2021, 1:58 pm

>18 asurbanipal: I loved that book, reread it many times in my youth.