Happy Hallowe'en from Betsy, courtesy of an October 1968 McCall's Magazine.

Some instructions for living from A Brand New You, 1963.

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These images all came out of the 1961 children's book What's for Lunch, Charley? by Margaret Hodges. The illustrations are by Aliki who has done lots of other amazing work. (For those wondering, yes these images are copyrighted by the illustrator and Scholastic Book Services.) I picked up this copy of the book on eBay, but I also had a copy as a child that was my mom's when she was little. I have really strong memories of the illustrations...they are some of my favorite. I'm sorry to bombard you with so many, but I can't choose between them.


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I took the Lilli brothers with us to breakfast this morning.

Mr. Lilli is happy to have orange juice. Lilli Brother protests!

( more more more bacon! )

These images are from the cards inside the Re-Ment set "Nathalie's French Goods". I thought they were exceptionally cute illustrations, even by Re-Ment standards. Since my camera is out of juice (the power cord is in a box somewhere) and I can't take pictures of the sets themselves, you get scans.



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I do not hold the copyright to these images, so please don't distribute them without permission from the Re-Ment Corp or use them for anything except personal enjoyment.

This is a 1979 paperdoll ripoff of Star Wars. Star Princess (Princess Leia) and Pluta (female C3PO)!


( 3 - 2 - 1...BLASTOFF! )

From The Monster Den by John Ciardi. Illustration by Edward Gorey, of course. Both copyright 1966.


( The Lesson For Tonight )

From one of my favorite fairy tales, Bluebeard. This illustration is by Kanako Tanabe and shows the moment when Bluebeard's (last) wife is pleading with him not to kill her.



You can read an annotated Charles Perrault telling of the Bluebeard story at SurLaLune.

From a children's book called The Little White Bird by J.M. Barrie, illustration by Jean Winslow. This story was one of the precursors to the Peter Pan story.

When you were a bird you knew the fairies pretty well, and you remember a good deal about them in your babyhood, which it is a great pity you can't write down, for gradually you forget, and I have heard of children who declared that they had never once seen a fairy. Very likely if they said this in the Kensington Gardens, they were standing looking at a fairy all the time. The reason they were cheated was that she pretended to be someting else. This is one of their best tricks. They usually pretend to be flowers, because the court sits in the Fairies' Basin and there are so many flowers there, and all along the Baby Walk, that a flower is the thing least likely to attract attention. They dress exactly like flowers, and change with the seasons, putting on white when lilies are in and blue for blue-bells, and so on. They like crocus and hyacinth time best of all, as they are partial to a bit of color, but tulips (except white ones, which are the fairy cradles) they consider garish, and they sometimes put off dressing liike tulips for days, so that the beginning of the tulip weeks is almost the best time to catch them.

I was really entranced by these illustrations from some cooking instructions...for some reason they remind me of the Re-Ment baking set. I believe the recipe was for pots de creme.


( The bride cooks... )

From Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, 1972 (translated by William Weaver, who taught my translation course at Bard)

The city of Leonia refashions itself every day: every morning the people wake between fresh sheets, wash with just-unwrapped cakes of soap, wear brand-new clothing, take from the latest model refrigerator still unopened tins, listening to the last-minute jingles from the most up-to-date radio.
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I think I live there.

The Continuous Life
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[by Mark Strand]

Some 50's images of love:

( From a deodorant advertisement: )

( From a cake mix advertisement: )