In the middle of the narrow way stood the motionless, steel-clad figure.
From "Otto of the Silver Hand" written & illustrated by Howard Pyle, New York: 1914 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/steel-clad-figures/
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"O Grandmother, what big ears you have got,” she said.
Arthur Rackham, from "Hansel & Grethel & Other Tales" by the Brothers Grimm, New York: 1920 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/o-grandmother/
"Did you know there is a place on Earth that’s hardly been explored at all? A place with near-freezing temperatures, crushing water pressure and total darkness?"
This book of "the world’s strangest, scariest and most magnificent sea creatures" looks fun:
https://curatingcambridge.co.uk/products/beasts-from-the-deep
#MarineLife #ChildrensBook #CambridgeUniversity #HelenScales #NewBook @bookstodon
They were made to gallop, to canter, to trot.
Cecil Aldin, from "Cecil Aldin's Merry Party" by May Clarissa Gillington Byron, London: 1913 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook https://www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrations/gallop-canter-trot/