April Book Photo Challenge Day 8 Nostalgic

I have quite a few of these books that I used to look at a lot as a really little kid. The second picture here is the key to why I did that.

I had/have a bit of a thing for books that have dust covers when the hard cover underneath has something different on it to the dust cover. Its like a secret world only you know about, or so I thought when I was little. I still, to this day check under dust covers to find hidden pictures but they are few and far between. 

This particualar book is one of my favorites. It Faeries illustrated by Brian Froud. Never actually read it (it is not a story book but and art book with anotations) but the pictures are so familar that they are like old familiar friends.

Day 4. Book Photo Challenge: First Book I Ever Loved

This is more of a representation of the first books I loved to get off the shelf as a child and look through. I have a couple of different series of Faeries and Elves and Dragons and things (my favorites are by Brian Froud).

Several reasons I love these. They have dust covers so i loved taking them off and seeing the embossed lettering and illustration underneath. I was always so excited when the pictures underneath the dust cover were completely different from the cover itself. Secondly, when flicking through these books for the photo challenge I realised  this was the reason I still attempt to draw. I copied so many of the drawing in these books, with hope of one day being as good as Brian Froud 

Day 3 Book Photo Challenge: Childhood Favorite

 This is one of those books that I have no idea of its origins in my home but has just always been there. It is so old its falling apart but I still love opening it up every so often and looking at the picture of the little mermaid getting her hair done sitting on an elephant's skull. The elephant's skull always intrigued me, how did an elephant's skull come to be in the ocean, let alone why it was adopted as a seat to have one's hair done. The drawing is exquisite and it reminds me of my child hood.

Day 19 Book Photo Challenge: Makes Me Feel Nostalgic

This was, without a shadow of a doubt, my absolute favorite book as a child and it was the first book I went out and found for my niece, it is that important to me. Enid Blyton was my favorite author for the longest time and I read a lot of her books but I always came back to good old Pip (or not so good at sometimes, he is a pixie after all).

The stories are really short, mostly less than two pages a piece, so they were really good for me to practice reading with when I was young and not that good at reading. Sometimes I would just look at the pictures and remember the stories when I couldn't read them (too young to read and after learning how to read, to tired to concentrate around my Dyslexia.) 

For this reason, I have chosen The Adventures of Pip by Enid Blyton as my Nostalgic pick and included photos of some of my favorite illustrations. Enjoy, I do.