Wednesday, August 31, 2011

A Mischief Of Mice

Eszter Schall...



















The Tale of Despereaux, illustrated by Timothy Basil Ering...

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From 'Three Mice and a Cat' by Jean Horton Berg, Illustrated by Art Seiden...thanksfroggyboggler...













Kate Greenaway...thanks CharmaineZoe...














Mary Louise Spoor, 1917...thanks SeeSaw...

Mary Louise Spoor, 1917, chromolithograph, children's illustration, hickory dickory dock, mice, doll


Gabrielle Vincent, 'Ernest & Celestine'...


Kazuo Iwamura...




Le Jardin de Miss Clara...avec une petite video delicieux ici, merci CultureBox!



Jan Brett...



Milo Winter, 1919...

THE TOWN MOUSE AND THE COUNTRY MOUSE



Ayano Imai...with a lovely spread of 'The Town Mouse & The Country Mouse'here...thanks KidPix...



Elsa Mora...



Jill Barklem...



Debbie Tilley...



Garth Williams...



Ellen Stoll Walsh...



Leo Lionni...



...and what would a post about mice be without Beatrix Potter...


Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Mimi & Toutou

There was an interesting story in the BBC News yesterday, about a bit of 'colonial jostling' in east Africa around 1913 when Germany sent a warship to Lake Tanganyika (in 500 crates, overland, to be assembled on site) to patrol its waters. And England, not to be outdone, sent two in response (also in crates). The Royal Navy was going to name these ships 'Cat' and 'Dog'. Deemed too flippant, they were finally christened 'Mimi' and 'Toutou', French children's names for cat and dog. Yesterday it was cats, today it's dogs, my equivalent for Mimi et Touto...