The Noisy Clock Shop

 Another fun book about sounds and noises accompanied by Art Seiden's colorful midcentury pictures.  Seriously, how wonderful are all the clock illustrations?!  

Mr. Winky, the clock mender, decides to leave his shop and go where there is no noise.   He travels all the way out into the countryside, only to realize that there are noises everywhere, and he's happy to return to the familiar tickity tick and dings and dongs of his clocks shop.

The Noisy Clock Shop

Jean Horton Berg

pictures by Art Seiden 1950

(I can't explain it, but I am such a sucker for faux bois!  I collect a lot of midcentury, vintage images because of it.)

Karl and the Clockmaker

 There's something kinda cozy about this book.  Part of a series of books for children about other children around the world.  It was published by Silver Burdett Company in 1968.  I believe this is the only one of the series that we have, probably because I came across it second hand and liked the illustrations.

Karl and the Clockmaker

Frederick J. Moffitt

illustrated by Fritz Kredel 1968

A pair of brothers are tasked with taking their broken cuckoo clock to the clockmaker who lives in the forest.  Along the way they stop to eat their sausage and cheese and meet the forester of the Black Forest who keeps them from getting lost.  It feels very old fashioned, even for 1968.  And there's a handy glossary for understanding the German words that are sprinkled in.  

Clocks and More Clocks

As someone who grew up in a house where none of the clocks had the right time, I find this book of Henry’s especially funny.

Clocks and More Clocks

Pat Hutchins 1970

Poor Mr. Higgins keeps running up and down stairs and buying more clocks trying to determine the accurate time. He gets a pocket watch in the end and that solves everything.  The illustrations are pure 70's!