A charming little book of quotations and proverbs about childhood, beautifully illustrated throughout with the delicate watercolours of Henriette Willebeek Le Mair, celebrated children's illustrator. Including works by various authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, A.A. Milne, Christina Rossetti, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe.

 

This book is part of a book series called Golden Days Nursery Rhymes .

There are 64 pages in this book. This is a book of quotations. This book was published 2000 by Penguin Books Ltd .

Henriette Willebeek Le Mair (1889-1966) was born in Rotterdam to a family of wealthy merchants. Her father, a keen patron of the arts, encouraged his daughter's artistic talent, and in 1910 she was commissioned to illustrate a collection of nursery rhymes, which was originally published as Our Old Nursery Rhymes. Through her extensive travels abroad, Henriette developed an interest in Eastern religion, languages and culture. In 1921, she converted to Sufism, a mystical Islamic philosophy. Although painting remained important to Henriette throughout her life, her religious work eventually took precedence over her illustration.