My First Nursery Book

´Stylish illustrations from the 1940s have been crisply reproduced to give a fresh, charming feel to four familiar nursery stories... Beautifully designed, with text and illustrations wittily integrated across double-page spreads, this is a book for adult readers to savour as they pore over it with child listeners, who will love the details too.´ - The Guardian
My First Nursery Book tells the stories ´Who Killed Cock Robin´?, ´The Gingerbread Man´, ´Three Little Pigs´ and ´The Three Bears´ with uniquely beautiful period illustrations that look as fresh and vital today as they did six decades ago. A true masterpiece of book design and illustration, the book was first published in 1947 and has been unavailable for over sixty years. Franciszka Themerson was a Polish avant-garde artist and film-maker whose children¿s book illustration as a refugee in London in the 1940s revealed a talent that is unique in the field. As the critic Jasia Reichardt explains in an accompanying note on the artist, she never patronises her audience, but ´treats her readers as partners in the discovery of the... minutiae of life. And this clarity is matched by the wit, charm and originality of the design and illustrations.´