Paris
Paris is Shelf Appeal’s favorite city. Not simply because they do the best fashion and toy exhibitions there. Not only...
Tag: book illustration
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Playtime
Shelf Appeal tries not to collect children’s books. For where would that end? Buckling shelves and a collecting headache,...
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Bewick on my knee
You see before you a booklet called Penguins Progress from Easter 1947. It has a yellow cover. Of course it...
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Something fishy
I have surprised myself. I thought I must have written about Barbara Jones on Shelf Appeal. But no. I think...
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Puffin Picture Book No. 104
In the way I am in denial about collecting King Penguin books (10 doesn’t a collection make, surely?) I am...
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Poor lambkin
Mid-April and the weather is still making its mind up. This time of year feels quintessentially English to me. The...
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Browsing a rare and free delight
Sometimes the internet delivers on its promise and you find a joyous, rare and free delight. I can’t remember where...