the marlowe bookshelf

 I may favor vintage children's books but I'm always discovering new author/illustrators and adding them to my library.  I just got ...

 Who doesn't love a cowboy story that includes a kitten?  Beginner reader with plenty of repeating words to help in learning and retro i...

 Since we are a house with both a bunny and cat, this book was particularly delightful.  Clare Turlay Newberry seems to write and draw from ...

The Trouble with Magic Ruth Chew Ruth Chew's early reader chapter books have been around for decades.  (They may hold a nostalgic spot f...

 Another version of Hiawatha told in story form and with gorgeous 1950's illustrations by Armstrong Sperry.  The pictures remind me a li...

 I first fell in love with Doris Burn when we found her book " Summerfolk " (which kicked off this blog all those years ago!). She...

The Princess with the Longest Hair Komilla Raote illustrated by Vandana Bist 1998  Somehow I found this book from Kahani Tree, a children...