the marlowe bookshelf

Make-Believe Summer: A Victorian Idyll Fred Cody 1980 illustrations by Arthur Boyd Houghton I think this book was such a clever i...

The City-Country ABC Marguerite Walters illustrated by Ib Ohlsson 1966 Here's a unique ABC book, a "turnabout" b...

This book is sweet and a little bit sad.  It made for nice late afternoon reading yesterday. Georgia Music Helen V. Griffith illust...

In anticipation of the London Olympics we picked up this fun book. This is London Miroslav Sasek 1959 Published in 1959, I love th...

We Went Looking Aileen Fisher 1968 pictures by Marie Angel Small beautifully detailed pictures accompany this sweet rhyming book. ...

Last night we found a cicada nymph out on our back step.  They crawl out of the ground and then shed their skin to transform into the winged...