Written by Margery Clark.
Illustrated by Maud and Miska Petersham.
Published by Doubleday, Doran & Co in 1930.
Binging: Hardback
Condition: VG (some faint marks on cover and some slight loosening of spine, but no inscriptions and all interior pages clean and bright)
A beautiful 1930 edition of children’s classic The Poppy Seed Cakes, by Margery Clark - featuring eight charming and funny linked stories about little Andrewshek and his Auntie Katushka.
The colourful woodcut illustrations by Caldecott Award-winning illustrators Maud and Miska Petersham are out of this world. So bold and contemporary-feeling, considering this book was first published in 1924.
Woodcut joy, talking animals and cheerful Auntie in her aproned splendour…