Thursday, September 18, 2008

In Beetle Land

'Where is Beetle Land? In the fields, in the woods, all over the place, or where the flowers and mushrooms grow. Any place where the merry little beetles run about is Beetle Land.'
by P.P. Billinghurst

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In Beetle Land - Header, "Perhaps they stop and talk to each other."


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In Beetle Land - Header, detail


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In Beetle Land - Header, detail 'Land'


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"It was very comfortable."


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"There was the monster outside his own front door."

From: Chatterbox (1926, Children's Annual), published by Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., London 1926
Unfortunately the artist for these particular illustrations isn't credited, they are not signed, and they are unique in style within the book.

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