Sunday Safari - Crocodiles' Smiles

Roger Duvoisin cover for The Crocodile in the Tree, thanks to Emma's blog

André François cover for Crocodile tears

 thanks to Moonflygirl's huge Vintage Children's Book Illustrations flickr set

 Robert Barry, illustration from Just Pepper, 1958,

 thanks to Rilla Alexander's beautiful Books I love flickr collection

Viktor Pivoravov, thanks to A Journey Round my Skull

 

Lane Smith

Herbert Leupin

Simona Mulazzani

 Meg Hunt

Marcello Minale, illustration from Creatures great and small 

thanks to Hazel Terry's great Classics of Childrens Illustration flickr set

John Alcorn,,illustration from La petite famille 

thanks to art.crazed's lovely Badly behaved flickr set

Sebastiano Ranchetti, Black Croc

Pablo Amargo, spread from El rIo que se secaba los jueves 

Pierre Pinsard, illustration from Petites contes negres pour les enfants des blancs, 1929

Feelin' Groovy

John Alcorn, spread from The Fireside Book of Children's Songs, 1966,

from Mallory M's gorgeous flickr books set

Travelling back in time in a yellow submarine,

landed on a planet full of color and dreams,

it's a summer full of love I put flowers in my air

young people are painting them everywhere...

Cover of Edward Lear's The Pobble by Dale Maxey, 1968,

thanks to Flamenconut's incredible flickr collection

Poppy Head Turkey, poster by Milton Glaser, 1960s

Papier-maché cat from Nytt med gamla tidningar, 1969,

from P-E Fronning's flickr set

Poster by Robyn Milne

Fat Cat Craft and Coloring Book by Donna Sloan, 1971

Cover of Jerome by Jerome Snyder, 1967

Illustration for A Lodestone and a Toadstone by Irene Elmer, 1969

The four covers above come from oange's delightfully addictive

Jump into my Eye Candy Pool

Tiger flower cover by Fleur Cowles, 1968

Poster by Tadanori Yokoo for the 16th exhibiton of Japan Advertising Artists Club, 1968,

thanks to onelargeprawn

Po Stopach Bengalskeho Tygra by Vratislav Hlavaty, 1973, at Terry Posters

Quicksilver Messenger Service, Avalon Ballroom, San Francisco, March 1967

poster by Victor Moscoso

Cover for the first German edition of Lord of the RIngs by Heinz Edelmann, 1969-70

Poster by Tadanori Yokoo, 1974

Sailor 21 Gold Fountain Pen poster by Aquirax Uno, 1968,

thanks to Pink Tentacle

Illisutration for A Paper Zoo by Ellen Raskin,1968,

thanks to the ever fascinating A Journey Round My Skull

Sunday Safari - What makes bunnies melancholy?

too much thinkin' by Kathleen Lolley

Bunnies, one of my favorite creatures in the soft and cute category,

are unfortunately inclined to suffer from depressive tendencies.

Just think of the famous Book of Bunny Suicides, or David Lynch's alienated Rabbits family.

To further prove the point, here you can meet some of the quiet and pensive creatures

I have encountered lately in my random journeys down the rabbit hole...

Penny farthing by Art and Ghosts

Slattern by Lou Beach

illustration by Toshiyuki Fukuda

illustration by Daniel Chang

Crochet bunny by Shauna Richardson

A Newspaper dress by Stasys Eidrigevicius, thanks to A Journey Round My Skull

Michael Sowa, illustration from Esterhazy: the Rabbit Prince

Octavia and rabbity friend by Cathy Cullis,

discovered thanks to Kickcan and Conkers

Pepel chair by Chiho Makino

Lapin by Marianne Ratier

Book cover by John Alcorn for the Italian edition of Watership Down, 1974

March Hare by Madeleine Floyd, thanks to Art Finds