Monday, October 24, 2011
Doings in Haunty Hollow...
By now you've probably figured out that I love old kid's magazines, especially ones from the 1950's and 1960's... so here are some highlights from a nifty Halloween issue of Child Life Vol. XXIX, No. 8 from October 1950. Spooky stories, games, poetry, hands on projects, etc., all bursting with fun illustrations and endless imagination.
back when kids were kids...
ReplyDeleteHey, Mabel Watts wrote a bunch of Little Golden Books. The Haunty Hollow story was really great. And I liked that Fun Time illustration a lot more before I started looking for hobgoblins. I'm still not sure what this magazine thinks a hobgoblin is supposed to look like, but I did find squiggles that just can't be witches.
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Outstanding stuff. I love the byline "For young children and their mothers." Was there ever a better way to declare that a publication was safe and secure without pomposity?
Also, that one page titled, "Play time" was just so beautifully composed. Looks like a great woodcut print.
Unfortunately, I think Mr C is right about the hobgoblins of Play Time, unless of course they're there in the cemetery munching on some corpses underground. And that's awesome to know she was a a writer for Little Golden, I really like this story too and read it to my kid occasionally.
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