This charming volume brings back into print some of the finest illustrated children's books from the Arts and Crafts Movement: Kate Greenaway's much-loved alphabet book, A Apple Pie, along with a selection of her illustrated nursery rhymes.Greenaway's drawings conjure up a never-never land of rural simplicity and innocence–an escape from the squalor of Victorian cities–that is as delightful now as it was when these gems of children's literature first appeared in the 1880s.
This charming volume brings back into print some of the finest illustrated children's books from the Arts and Crafts Movement: Kate Greenaway's much-loved alphabet book, A Apple Pie, along with a selection of her illustrated nursery rhymes.Greenaway's drawings conjure up a never-never land of rural simplicity and innocence–an escape from the squalor of Victorian cities–that is as delightful now as it was when these gems of children's literature first appeared in the 1880s.
A Apple Pie & Nursery Rhymes
96A Apple Pie & Nursery Rhymes
96Hardcover
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ISBN-13: | 9780375415111 |
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Publisher: | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group |
Publication date: | 11/12/2002 |
Pages: | 96 |
Sales rank: | 371,480 |
Product dimensions: | 6.40(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.40(d) |
Age Range: | 2 - 5 Years |
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