The publisher is Penguin and the book is part of a King Penguin Books series) (Maybe you figured this out already, but the Penguins on the cover aren’t just toys. I hope you have enjoyed reading this little book as much as I have. The museum at Bethnal Green is now the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood which I wrote about here. I may have to go back to the London Museum and Kensington palace to see if any of the toys White has illustrated are still on exhibit. I want to share it with you here and I couldn’t decide what to leave out so I have scanned the entire book. It feels an appropriate companion piece to my earlier posts on A Book of Pictorial Perspective and Folk Toys -les jouets populaires.
The writing is straightforward yet playful. This is part of our heritage as children’s book illustrators and authors.
The images are simple and grand at the same time. I am happy to report that the book is as wonderful as I’d hoped. I bought it based on that combination, and the cover, without knowing anything about the interior contents. Most were not available or beyond my budget, but I did find one copy of White’s A Book of Toys that was affordable. That led to research into whether I could buy any of them. While researching for my last post, Gwen White’s Pictorial Perspective, I discovered that she had written and illustrated other books as well.
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