I am back in a terrible habit of collecting children's books, terrible for my bank, but good for you as you get to see the results of my hoarding. Possibly it is good for me to as it means I am ready to leap into projects I have been brewing. I have to say as time goes on these old picture books are vanishing and it is good to document them. Alice and Martin Provensen are favourites and I bought a couple of historic stories they had illustrated recently, starting with one about Robert Louis Stevenson's Atlantic crossing called 'The Voyage of the Ludgate Hill' by Nancy Willard. published in 1987.
The illustrations are painterly but also strangely flat and seem to reflect the stiffness of Victorian society whilst being full of humour.
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