We have just added a small feature on our sidebar, featured books for sale. We are offering a link here to a special book that you think our readers may be interested in. The cost of the link is starting at only $4.00 for 30 days. The benefits include: Exposure to the hundreds of book … Read more
For your listening pleasure we have added podcasts by Books on the Nightstand. Thanks to Ann Kingman for offering this to us, we hope it will be a regular feature. Today’s segment features some of their favorite books. You can listen by clicking on the little graphic just below (if you are reading this in … Read more
With Dan Brown’s next book due out soon we’ve had a couple of discussions in our book shop about the values of books by Dan Brown. Unlike some authors that find a way to put out a couple of books every year, Dan Brown is considerably less prolific. He has published only four books in … Read more
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Shall I compare thee to an unread text?
Thou art less lovely but more affordable
Rough hands withdraw them not nor their pages vex…
The early 20th Century saw the first of what can be considered the modern children’s picture book. The books were short, the words relatively few, and the illustrations advanced the story instead of merely illustrating the text. Whether it was Peter Rabbit squeezing himself under Mr. McGregor’s fence or poor Pooh being thumped on the … Read more
The most liberal identification of the time frame for the Golden Age of the Illustrated Book is from 1865 till the beginning of World War II. And while not all illustrated books of this age were children’s books, it definitely delineates the high end collectible for this genre.
In 1942 Simon and Schuster published the first dozen titles in Little Golden Books (LGB) series. They were priced at about 25 cents, marketed to department stores, and as an alternative to the more expensive children’s books, which at the time cost 2 to 3 dollars, were immediately popular.
