Words + Images

The book was rather unassuming yet lovely in its simplicity.  A maroon red book cover emblazoned in gold with the figure of a young boy leaping, and beneath him the words, also in gold, “Patrick and the Golden Slippers.”  I don’t remember how much it cost in the antique store.  A couple of bucks, no more.  A first edition 1951 book by Pennsylvania children’s book author and illustrator, Katherine Milhous.

Turns out that Ms. Milhouse created Pennsylvania posters for the Works Progress Administration during the 1940’s.