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 'Wobble. The Witch Cat'  1958 by Roger Duvoisin, Wobble the cat does not like riding on broomsticks, the solution is a vacuum cleaner.

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 'Nubber Bear' by William Lipkind, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin, published in 1966. As followers of this blog will know I adore Roger Duvoisin's work and I always love to find books of his that I haven't discovered before.
Nubber Bear, as ever, is full of wonderful expressive line and great colour combinations.

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Christmas wouldn't be christmas without Roger Duvoisin, though I am sure to run out of his treasures soon. This is the 1948 book written by William Hall and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin, called "The Christmas Pony'. The rabbit Easter has amazing helicopter ears Thanksgiving (TG) is the turkey and Chris is the pony who is to be given away as a Christmas gift. 

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A little bit of Christmas magic from Roger Duvoisin and Louise Fatio with illustrations from 'The Christmas Forest' 1950.

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I found a book with illustrations by Roger Duvoisin in the school that I am currently on residency with so
I can share some more of his magic, these images are from 'It's Time Now' written by Alvin Tresselt.

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The Frog in the Well by Alvin Tresselt illustrated by Roger Duvoisin 1958 is a book of colour plates interspersed between spreads of two colour printing of black and green. 

Roger Duvoisin, 'They Put out to Sea'.

Here are some of the illustrations from Roger Duvoisin's book; 'They put out to sea', or The Story of the Map, a book that explores various seafarers and their exploration and understanding of the world. This book has mostly black and white illustrations but it does also have beautiful colour spreads, and even includes Roger's favorite, a hippopotamus.

The Frog In the Well

I have expanded my Roger Duvoisin collection further with this beautiful book 'The Frog in the Well' written by Alvin Tresselt, first published in 1958. It has the much loved faces of petunias farm and it has a gentle calmness in the pace and message of the story.

Veronica Goes To Petunia Farm

I am late today, not very well unfortunately and very tired, so I am going to take a few days off.
I leave you with more Roger Duvoisin, this time from; Our Veronica goes to Petunia's Farm.
It is a sad little story about Veronica being shunned by the other farm animals and then each of them making friends with her, but it still has all the joy in the illustrations that you would expect.
See you on Monday.

Home to Roger Duvoisin

Home to a wonderful present 'Mr and Mrs Button's Wonderful Watchdogs' by Janet, illustrated by Roger Duvoisin. A book about a couple seeking the perfect guard dog only all the dogs they get become friendly so eventually when someone does break in they get licked, loved, and caught.
I have loved my holiday but it is always good to come home and see my chickens, cats and seagull.

Tigers Don't Bite

I have been bad and bought myself more treats  . . . I do share them with you and Freya though, so it is not that bad!
All I can say after this my latest purchase is that Roger Duvoisin (as you know one of my favourite illustrators) drew beautiful tigers as well as Happy Lions. 
These illustrations are from Tigers Don't Bite 1956 written by Jack Tworkov and illustrated by Roger Duvoisin.