Posted in Books I Love, Inspiration, tagged Don Freeman, illustration, James Thurber, The White Deer on January 24, 2010| 1 Comment »
I forgot to mention in my previous post — the words of The White Deer are lovey, but so are the illustrations done by Thurber and Don Freeman.
“rabbits here can tip their heads as men now tip their hats, removing them with their paws and putting them back again.” 
Read more about Don Freeman here: http://www.bookstallsf.com/freeman.html#BIOGRAPHY
Read more about James Thurber here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Thurber
Posted in Books I Love, Inspiration, Nature Notes, tagged James Thurber, The White Deer on January 24, 2010| Leave a Comment »
“If you should walk and wind and wander far enough on one of those afternoons in April when smoke goes down instead of up, and nearby things sound far away and far things near, you are more than likely to come at last to the enchanted forest that lies between the Moonstone Mines and Centaurs Mountain. You’ll know the woods when you are still a long way off by virtue of a fragrance you can never quite forget and never quite remember. And there’ll be a distant bell that causes boys to run and laugh and girls to stand and tremble. If you pluck one of the ten thousand toadstools that grow in the emerald grass … it will feel as heavy as a hammer in your hand, but if you let it go it will sail away over the trees like a tiny parachute …”
— the beginning of The White Deer by James Thurber (1945)
Words + Images 