Father and Son, Gettin' it done
Little Willie Won't Go Home
2017 Vintage Edition Give-Away!
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A Little Light Work
Good Words for...well Everybody
Within and Without
When Fancy and Imagination is Work
Blue Parish
Need a Doctor?
A Spring Chicken
At the Back of the North Wind: Contrasting Illustrations by Jessie Wilcox Smith and Maria L. Kirk
The most iconic images of At the Back of the North Wind come from the 1904 and 1919 editions, illustrated by Maria L. Kirk and Jessie Wilcox Smith, respectively. Smith was the more famous--and arguably more talented--of the two illustrators, but it seems to me likely that she was influenced by Kirk's work...
