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Despite their age, many of these books are still extremely readable even by young readers. I thumbed through Frog: the horse that couldn’t be tamed and really e
by matt_wulfeck 9y ago
Despite their age, many of these books are still extremely readable even by young readers. I thumbed through Frog: the horse that couldn’t be tamed and really enjoyed it. The hand-drawn pictures in the book are also very readable and cool in a retro way. Makes me sad about the current quality of our children’s literature.
- gertef 9y agoThere is high-quality current literature today, and there was low-quality literature then.
- kronos29296 9y agoThis may be because there is so much low quality stuff everywhere while only the good and high quality ones survived from the past (Survival of the fittest I guess). So the past looks like it was all good but the present is mostly rubbish.
- DanBC 9y ago> Makes me sad about the current quality of our children’s literature. there are thousands of excellent books for children now, some with exquisite illustration. Here's a twitter hashtag with some good examples: https://twitter.com/hashtag/favekidsbookart?src=hash https://twitter.com/hashtag/favekidsbookart?src=hash The UK has a prize for excellent illustration - the CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal. http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/greenaway.php http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/greenaway.php Here's the 2017 shortlist: http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/greenaway-current-shortlist.php http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/greenaway-current-shortl... Previous winners are listed here: http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/archive.php http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/archive.php