Fascinating footnotes to the common and less common rhymes, telling of each rhyme's origin in the days when "children's" literature did not exist. Many samples of famous illustrators and early woodcuts.

Simple direct coloured illustrations in black outline showing modern children at play with many of the old rhymes. Please note: THIS BOOK HAS BEEN SOLD

Plates in stunning colour and detail with a text beneath to guide a parent in discussing the picture "testo esplicativo e metodico." Furniture, Tools, Animals, Town, Country, Christmas, Flowers, Fruit, Buildings and Utensili di Cucina to die for!

During the German occupation, Kubasta worked for a puppet theater under Cenek Sovak. This little hedgehog boy, Jezek Pichacek, was one of the puppets. Subsequently, Sovak and Kubasta created several books about Jezek Pichacek. Many coloured pictures throughout the text. In this Jezek has adventures with an elegantly dressed cat-like creature, and eventually returns home. See also the earlier book, signed by Sovak,  Jezek Pichacek mezi Zviratky. Rare.

Lonely Uncle Zotti makes a balloon man who floats far from the town and finally finds three children and their lonely widowed mother. A perfectly charming story in bright lithos with angular perspectives from Balloni's high view. In German.