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Vintage Sesame Street books are so wonderful.
These are two pages from The Together Book (1971.)
There’s so much life in the line work. Also I love how you can see it was traditionally illustrated because the yellow paint overlaps the lines on Big Bird and hasn’t been touched up.
I absolutely love this 1970’s edition of The Sword in the Stone illustrated by Alan Lee. Merlin’s cottage has always been evocative for me and this is just how I’ve imagined it.
A couple months ago I finally finished my massive re-read of The Wheel of Time.
Since then I’ve been binge reading the Grishaverse series by Leigh Bardugo. It’s darker than I usually read, but I love her characters. As the cast grows I really relate to so many neurodivergent traits. So that has kept me reading even when the circumstances are grim.
*Content warning, although most of the darkness is not explicit. If you’re a sensitive reader you may want to check out content warnings for each book on Storygraph.
You can get a taste of it via the Netflix series which is rated TV-14.
The storybook Language of Thorns was absolutely gorgeous, and used a clever illustrative style where the images slowly developed over each page. But some of the stories were so traumatic* I left mine in a Little Free Library and I’m not sure if I regret it or not.
*as are many traditional fairy tales to be fair.