Illustration: Mary Blair's Little Verses

This post is just the tip of the iceberg... see reason number 3 on our The Top Ten Reasons To Support The A-HAA for links to more great posts about Golden Book illustrators.


Mary Blair has become well known in the past few years for her concept work on Disney's classic animated features of the forties and fifties, but two of her masterpieces remain unavailable for viewing... one is the set of murals she designed at the entrance to Tomorrowland in Disneyland, which were covered up several years ago by a plastic wall covering that was supposed to look futuristic... and the other masterpiece is her Golden Book titled, "Little Verses", which has been out of print for over 40 years.

Originally serialized in the children's magazine, "Highlights" in the early fifties, these paintings were issued as an oversized Golden Book in the early 60s. This particular Golden Book is one of the most sought after titles by collectors. Rita Street was kind enough to loan a copy to be be digitized for the Archive's image database. I've done a little Photoshopping to remove the text, so you can see the paintings unobstructed.

Here are a few scans from this beautiful book...




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For more by Mary Blair, see... Mary Blair Song Book Part One, Part Two and Part Three; as well as Baby's House.

See also... Bozo and his Rocket Ship, Rojankovsky's Frog Went A Courting, Tibor Gergely's A Day In The Jungle, Gustaf Tenggren's The Little Trapper, Uncle Remus Stories Part One and Part Two, The New Golden Song Book Part One, Part Two and Part Three, and Huckleberry Hound Builds A House.

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Stephen Worth
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ASIFA-Hollywood
Animation Archive

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