I rediscovered a vintage children's book on my shelf the other day (i blogged about it a few years ago here), entitled Riding to Canonbie by Cara Lockhart Smith. The book is filled with rather ethereal poems and illustrated with black and white pen drawings. It was published in 1972.
Even though I've already posted some pictures from it, I had to mention it again, because the drawings are so intricate and lovely, I think. I especially like the little boy sleeping under a patchwork quilt (in the second picture above)- in the poem it seems he is sleeping to avoid 'cake-crumbs, ladies and potations, sympathy and cold collations, and other various distractions…' Hmm.
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