Grammar Can Be Fun

by Munro Leaf, 1934

This title by Ferdinand author Munro Leaf makes grammar so fun that you pass out or die.



These are the end papers. Mr. Leaf drew them while chatting on the phone. Probably on a napkin or the back of his cable bill.







Good advice for when Abe Lincoln asks you how you feel. He’s nice like that.


At the end of the book Mr. Leaf invites the reader to write a bunch of stuff in the the back of the book.


The previous owner took him up on it. A lot. There are like six pages like this. Mostly drawings of ladders and random scribbles.

WHY CHILDREN WILL LIKE IT: Abe Lincoln, wobbly necks, a big spider

Winter Blast!

Presenting some of our favorite wintry images for this holiday season . . .

John Leech - A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 1843


Denver Gillen - Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer by Robert L. May, 1939




Ruth Gannett - Miss Hickory by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, 1946


Jean Charlot - Two Little Trains by Margaret Wise Brown, 1949


Crockett Johnson - Harold at the North Pole, 1957


Carl Hanser - Das Hexen-Einmal-Eins, 1998




Robin Mitchell and Ruth Steedman - Snowy and Chinook, 2005


 
 
Nickolaj Tyrsa - The Snow Book by Vitaly Bianki, 1926


Remy Charlip - David's Little Indian by Margaret Wise Brown, 1956


Gyo Fujikawa - The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore, 1961


J.Otto Seibold - Olive, the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh, 1997
 
Ludwig Bemelmans - Parsley, 1953


 
M.B. Goffstein - Our Snowman, 1986


Lane Smith - Pinocchio the Boy (or Incognito in Collodi), 2002


 

Ennio Di Majo - Piccoletto by Renato Rascel, 1958


Uri Shulevitz - Snow, 1998


Sam Berman - Pixie Pete's Christmas Party, 1957


Harry McNaught - The Road to Oz, 1951


Harry McNaught - The Tin Woodman of Oz, 1952


Henrik Drescher - Looking for Santa Claus, 1984


Rnold Kohn - The True Book of Holidays by John Wallace Purcell, 1955


J.P. Miller - Jingle Bells by Kathleen N. Daly, 1964
 
Elizabeth Enright - Kees by Marion King, 1930


Petra Mathers - Herbie's Secret Santa, 2002


Lewitt-Him - The Little Red Engine Gets a Name by Diana Ross


Dr. Seuss - study for Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! 1975
 
Raymond Briggs - The Snowman, 1978
 
George De Santis - The Littlest Snowman by Charles Tazewell, 1955
 
Ezra Jack Keats - The Snowy Day, 1962


Roy McKie - Snow by P.D. Eastman, 1962
 
Patrick McDonnell - South, 2008


Vladimir Radunsky - The Story of a Boy Named Will by Daniil Kharms, 1993
 
Marc Simont - The Happy Day by Ruth Krauss, 1949


Once Upon a Wintertime from Walt Disney's Classic Storybook, 2001


Thomas Nast - Twas the Night Before Christmas, 1865


 
Jozef Wilkon - The Story of the Kind Wolf by Peter Nickl, 1982




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