One parent's (and her kids') guide to navigating the library and bookstore. My recommendations in children's book classics . . . literature for little ones, then and now.
Emily, happy to see that you chose a picture of Tasha Tudor to adorn your first post of February. Isn't Tasha a wonderful illustrator? I first knew of her when I purchased her illustrated book 'Child's Garden of Verses'. It was sheer delight: Her illustrations and Robert Louis Stevenson's poems of a bygone era spun pure magic.
Since then I have learned a bit about Tasha's life and what an extraordinary person. She was fond of saying she wished she'd been born in 1830 and lived much of her life as if she had been. As one article put it "A calico-clad throwback, she went barefoot, spun flax into linen for her own clothing, raised Nubian goats for their milk and lived out her days in a replica of a late 18th-century New England farmhouse, replete with antique utensils and tiny windows".
I have a great desire to visit Tasha Tudor Museum in Brattleboro Vermont, hopefully soon, one of these days.
Emily, happy to see that you chose a picture of Tasha Tudor to adorn your first post of February. Isn't Tasha a wonderful illustrator? I first knew of her when I purchased her illustrated book 'Child's Garden of Verses'. It was sheer delight: Her illustrations and Robert Louis Stevenson's poems of a bygone era spun pure magic.
Since then I have learned a bit about Tasha's life and what an extraordinary person. She was fond of saying she wished she'd been born in 1830 and lived much of her life as if she had been. As one article put it "A calico-clad throwback, she went barefoot, spun flax into linen for her own clothing, raised Nubian goats for their milk and lived out her days in a replica of a late 18th-century New England farmhouse, replete with antique utensils and tiny windows".
I have a great desire to visit Tasha Tudor Museum in Brattleboro Vermont, hopefully soon, one of these days.
Emily, happy to see that you chose a picture of Tasha Tudor to adorn your first post of February. Isn't Tasha a wonderful illustrator? I first knew of her when I purchased her illustrated book 'Child's Garden of Verses'. It was sheer delight: Her illustrations and Robert Louis Stevenson's poems of a bygone era spun pure magic.
ReplyDeleteSince then I have learned a bit about Tasha's life and what an extraordinary person. She was fond of saying she wished she'd been born in 1830 and lived much of her life as if she had been. As one article put it "A calico-clad throwback, she went barefoot, spun flax into linen for her own clothing, raised Nubian goats for their milk and lived out her days in a replica of a late 18th-century New England farmhouse, replete with antique utensils and tiny windows".
I have a great desire to visit Tasha Tudor Museum in Brattleboro Vermont, hopefully soon, one of these days.
Emily, happy to see that you chose a picture of Tasha Tudor to adorn your first post of February. Isn't Tasha a wonderful illustrator? I first knew of her when I purchased her illustrated book 'Child's Garden of Verses'. It was sheer delight: Her illustrations and Robert Louis Stevenson's poems of a bygone era spun pure magic.
ReplyDeleteSince then I have learned a bit about Tasha's life and what an extraordinary person. She was fond of saying she wished she'd been born in 1830 and lived much of her life as if she had been. As one article put it "A calico-clad throwback, she went barefoot, spun flax into linen for her own clothing, raised Nubian goats for their milk and lived out her days in a replica of a late 18th-century New England farmhouse, replete with antique utensils and tiny windows".
I have a great desire to visit Tasha Tudor Museum in Brattleboro Vermont, hopefully soon, one of these days.