Speedball Textbook

This book is full of fanciful writing and most of the pages show the strokes needed to make the letters.  

20th Edition Speedball Textbook For Pen and Brush Lettering

Hunt Manufacturing Company, 1972

96 Pp.

The Young Scientist: His Experiments and Hypotheses

Oh boy!  I love old science books.  And I especially love it when they're illustrated. 

The Youhg Scientist: His Experiments and Hypotheses

Written by John Gabriel Navarra and Joseph Zafforoni

With many full-color illustrations

Harper & Row, 1972

Pp. 320

LC number: 78-118693

Hardcover textbook

A First Look At Seashells

I've always loved the ocean and I've always loved seashells.  And I think I want to use this book to make some nice seashell embroidery patterns. 

A First Look At Seashells

Written by Millicent E. Selsam and Joyce Hunt

Illustrated by Harriett Springer

Walker & Company, 1985

Pp. 32

ISBN: 0-8027-6503-3

Hardcover

Esquivel Exploring New Sounds in Stereo

I have this album on CD, but this cover is so beautiful that I had to have it as artwork around the house.  

Esquivel!

Exploring New Sounds in Stereo

A Child's Guide to Freud

This book is so very much of its time!  It's a wry look at psychoanalysis and it's very clever.  And, of course, Darrow's illustrations are top-notch!  

A Child's Guide to Freud

Written by Louise Armstrong

Illustrated by Whitney Darrow, Jr. 

Simon & Schuster, 1963

Pp. 64

LC Number: 63-19910

Hardcover

The Moon: Our Neighboring World

This book makes me wish I could live on the moon!  Look how beautiful it is out there!  How disappointing it must have been to find out that the moon is barren!  Oh well.

The Moon: Our Neighboring World

Golden Library of Knowledge

Written by Otto Binder

Illustrated by George Solonevich

Golden Press, 1961

Pp. 54

LC Number: 61-5450

Medium sized hardcover

Easy Costumes You Don't Have to Sew

This is one of those books that could easily come out today!  It has lots of very useful costume ideas and I think I'm going to make my kids take some ideas from this book this year.  I predict a family of robots! 

Easy Costumes You Don't Have to Sew

Written by Goldie Taub Chernoff

Costumes designed and illustrated by Margaret A. Hartelius

Four Winds Press, 1975

Pp. 41

ISBN: 0-02-718230-4

Hardcover

The Bishop's Basset

Oh, this book is so sappy, but so wonderful!  And the photographs are great, too!  You should pick up a copy, because there aren't many left!

The Bishop's Basset 

Written by Jessie O'Connell Gibbs

Essandess Special Editions, 1970

Pp. 60

ISBN: 671-10442-x

Medium sized hardcover

Look, Mom, It's Growing: Kids Can Have Green Thumbs, Too

I picked this book because I love the simple instructions and the simple graphics.  It's from 1976, but it's just as useful today as it was then. 

Look, Mom, It's Growing Kids Can Have Green Thumbs Too

Written by Ed Fink

Illustrated by Louise J Mueller

Countryside Books, 1976

Pp. 71

Large softcover

Elf Books Cinderella

I don't entirely know what to say about this book.  Cinderella is so, so, SO glamourous in this version!  The colors are beautiful, too.  

 Elf Books Cinderella

Edited by Katharine Lee Bates

Illustrated by Helen Endres, William Neebe, and Barbara Clyne

Rand McNally & Company, 1956

Small hardcover

The Earth: Maps and Globes

I picked this book for the illustrations and for the glimpse into life in 1967.  I'd love to make wrapping paper out of some of these pages, or just frame them to hang on my son's bedroom wall!  You can pick up your own copy

 The Earth: Maps And Globes

California State Series

Written by Amelia Martucci & Rex Malcolm

California State Dept. of Education, 1967

Pp. 94

Hardcover textbook.

CB Radio

This book teaches your young child how to use CB jargon!  It's pretty great.  Or it might make a good Father's Day present!   

CB Radio

Written by Edward Radlauer

Children's Press, 1978

Pp. 32

ISBN: 0-516-07468-7

Hardcover

This Week's Finds!

Every week, I'll post a collection of items I found that week.  Some of the items I really like will get full posts.  So, to find out more about these items and to see more photos, click the links below!

1. Elf Books Cinderella, 2. Look, Mom, It's Growing Kids Can Have Green Thumbs Too, 3. The Earth: Maps And Globes, 4. The Happy Hocky Family, 5. The Ideals Around the World Cookbook, 6. Laura's Luck, 7. "I Can't," Said the Ant, 8. Baby's Christmas: A Little Golden Book, 9. The Story of Babar: The Little Elephant, 10. The Bishop's Basset, 11. CB Radio Book, 12. A Child's Guide to Freud, 13. My Fun to Read Books: Stories for Enjoyment and Enrichment Including Life in the Forest, Life Along the Seashore, and Birds in Summer, 14. My Fun-To-Read Books: Tom Savage, Sioux Buffalo Hunters, and The Trail to Santa Fe, 15. My Fun to Read Books: Including Joey's Horse, Katie's Zoo, and Jamie's Dog, 16. Stories for Enjoyment and Enrichment Includes The Ugly Duckling, Adventures of a Squirrel, and Elephant Baby, 17. The Moon: Our Neighboring World, 18. 20th Edition Speedball Textbook For Pen and Brush Lettering, 19. The Nest Book: A Golden Book for Kindergarten, 20. A First Look At Seashells, 21. Easy Costumes You Don't Have to Sew, 22. The Youhg Scientist: His Experiments and Hypotheses, 23. Esquivel Exploring New Sounds in Stereo LP, 24. Cross-stitched Card Table Cover with Poker Motif - Ace of Hearts

Cross-stitched Card Table Cover with Poker Motif - Ace of Hearts

Cross-stitched Card Table Cover with Poker Motif - Ace of Hearts, a photo by hazelcatkins on Flickr.

Oh my goodness! How this table cloth makes me wish I had a regular poker group! Oh, I'd need a proper folding card table, too! The stitches are lovely and uneven and inspirational. I think I'll take up cross stitch now, too. It looks so nice!

You can see more photos of this by clicking on the Flickr link above. You can purchase it here!