Hiawatha

Hiawatha

Marion Gridley, Irma Wilde

Rand McNally, 1950

Rand McNally Elf Books and Junior Elf books echo Little Golden Books as compact, uniform publications with tried and true subjects such as animals, folklore and anthropomorphised things like tugboats or what have you. Here we have their rendition of Hiawatha suggested by Longfellow's epic poem presented sans trochaic tetrameter! A slightly more naturalistic presentation characterizes these illustrations versus those of Little Indian.

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The Little Indian

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Little Indian

Margaret Wise Brown, Richard Scarry

Simon & Schuster, 1954

Little Indian is a Little Golden Book authored by Margaret Wise Brown of Goodnight Moon fame (plus numerous other works) and Richard Scarry who also probably needs no introduction if you've made it to this site out of affinity towards children's books. The book is posted out of my general interest in Indian and woodland cultures and especially their depiction in mid-century illustration. More of that to follow.

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