How Animals Sleep, illustrated by Jack Keats

I feel like a curmudgeon for saying this, but what is happening with girl's toys and play costumes? Everything is pink, glitter and bling. I understand many little girls of a certain age love the color pink and go through a princess stage. But it looks to me like a rather disproportionate number of girls toys are promoting limited ideals for girls: be a princess, rock star or a celebrity. 

Where is this all going? I don't know. It would take up too much time and space on this post and I'm sure you don't want to read it. But I do like books like this one illustrated by Jack Keats - How Animals Sleep. It's interesting and real life. There. Off my podium. Nuff said.

How Animals Sleep

By Millicent Selsam

Illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats

Scholastic Book Services, 1962

Once A Mouse..., Marcia Brown

 Today's vintage children's books is Once A Mouse..., illustrated in woodcuts by Marcia Brown. Once A Mouse is an old fable from India about a mouse rescued
by a hermit with magical powers. The moral is about greed and where that can get you...

Once A Mouse...

A Fable Cut in Wood

By Marcia Brown

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1961