Storybook Culture: The Art of Popular Children's Books

By Cheryl Homme and Joseph Homme

Book Overview

Remember hiding under the covers and being swept away by a fantastical tale while clutching a flashlight? Sure, it began with Dick and Jane, but soon you moved on to the more sophisticated Nancy Drew... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1888054719
• ISBN13: 9781888054712
• Release Date: November 2002
• Publisher: Collectors Press
• Length: 207 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 11.4" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Some Great Images

Note: Your "helpful" votes are appreciated, and please remember that a short review (recommendation) is not necessarily a bad review if it leads you to a great book. I'll simply point out some of the great bookcovers in this collection: "Balboa: Swordsman and Conquistador" has a great picture of a sailing ship. I liked the "Miss Lizzie" scenes of the children playing by a fence. It was also fun to look through the old "Dick and Jane" books. "Trixie Belden and the Secret of the Mansion" was a great illustration. I bought this book new, and I thought it was a bit expensive. If you buy a used copy, I'm sure you'll be entirely satisfied with it.

A treasure trove timeless art and visual memories

The collaborative effort of Joseph Homme and Cheryl Homme, Storybook Culture: The Art Of Popular Children's Books is a gorgeous coffee-table artwork filled from cover to cover with full-color photographs showcasing the cover art of a wide variety of classic and vintage children's books and magazines. Storybook Culture is enhanced with a few cogent essays about these classic and popular books (and their inspirational cover art), but the majority of this enchanting tome is dedicated to the cover illustrations themselves, each with an informative caption about the book's author, illustrator, and publisher. A treasure trove timeless art and visual memories, Storybook Culture is especially recommended as a school or community library Memorial Fund acquisition selection.