Today's vintage children's book is Joey and the Birthday Present. Love the illustrations by Evaline Ness, the more of her work I see, the more I like her. Ness's work seems effortless, but I'm sure it wasn't. It just looks like she had a lot of fun doing it. Ness has some nice compositions in this book, like the kitchen or the family with the dalmation. I think that is one thing she was very good at, besides being a talented artist. An interesting aside about Evaline Ness, she was married for awhile to FBI agent Elliot Ness, who was the inspiration for the movie The Untouchables.
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Joey and the Birthday Present
By Maxine Kumin and Anne Sexton
Illustrations by Evaline Ness
McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971
Other books by Evaline Ness:
I have "Sam, Bangs and Moonshine" of course, but do not recall seeing any of her other work, even though some were Caldecott Honors. Thanks for highlighting her work.
ReplyDeleteLove Tom Tit Tot. My mother read it to us from a Childcraft volume. We'd laugh and laugh.
ReplyDeleteDon't forget that Maxine Kumin & Anne Sexton were cray-cray Confessional-poetry superstars of the 1960s. OK, Sexton was cray-cray for sure, Kumin may have been sane. :)
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