BB`s Blog: PLEASURE TIME 1930's - 1950's Children's Story Book Covers presented by BB

i having made many an open book cover, that were in turn glued into place over a strip of paper card since the onset of Covid19 now find it easy to find pictures that are in common domain for copying.

Upon the heals of this April Fools Day ,these paper patterns guided the sewing machines cotton dress design by way of the cast-iron singer machine. My Dearest Mother Grace Liddy, had one of such high speed design and even now within my minds eye i see her busy still with dainty foot upon that moving treadle.

And so this book was included for remembering that make do society of my youth. Well you see even i BB, had three sisters.

Moving On

i saw other books to include for my printers ink to colourwash in its pleasing wet damp but quick dry way. So from one picture...

To another open book cover that eventually took its form.

Perhaps Crabbing?

The artist always used real children when painting especially for BLACKIE an annual of once a year release.

For myself these paintings are social history and i love collecting them for they invoke such vivid memories of my younger dandelion childhood days of the 1950's.

The hard Cover of the Book is upon show above.

The magical tale of a beautiful young girl that only had one dress kept for best, but had it torn while upon an adventure down within the reed beds of the river. A place where the Swans and Ducks befriended her. But as i only vaguely remember it, it was i do believe all a dream.

Above is what the thin shiny paper looked like which covered the hard back book with such a highly delightful picture of the Swans being very interested in the bread she holds in her lap.

Here is one i thought i'd zapped away into oblivion,

but no it just went walkabout like in the pictures above.

i remember well collecting a few Willow Catkins myself, to take to school for it was the done thing to do in that annual system of younger education. As i now realise it to be a most long ago practice of the 1950's learning display it probably does not have any real place within the schooling system in this so called modern topsy turvy age. Well what do you think?

The artist author used to use real life children in her colourful display upon all the hard book covers and also they were duly recorded having interesting fun upon each and every page within each annual as the Christmas season of goodwill arrived in that bygone age of wishful childhood dreams.

What better way could there be ? To captivate the interest in ones toys by reading a story to them from her book.

The innocent dream-like realm of using ones own imagination when alone at play. As for her dolls they all seem very attentive in a much higher degree than would've been normal. For dolls did flop about and fall over throughout all their long lost summersault years.