Three Quaint and Wonderful Vintage Children's Books (1940's)

Three Quaint and Wonderful Vintage Children's Books (1940's) Norman and The Nursery School New York. The Platt & Munk Co. Inc., 1949. Hardcover fully in-tact; wear around edges of cover boards; tape reinforced outer edge of spine; pages of heavy paper on interior. Small school stamp front and back inside covers. Beautifully vibrant color from Platt & Munk throughout. The artful beauty and color of their illustration is what they are known for. Authors: W. Edward Young and Will Hayes Illustrator: Janet Robson Kennedy The story is to provide children and their parents a picture of what it is like to attend nursery school Fuzzy Wuzzy Elephant Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing, 1944. Stapled wraps with wear at top corners, small rips, tiny piece missing top left front and right back cover. Fuzzy on cover worn, internals very good. Including covers, 12 pages. Each subsequent page smaller than one before until you get to center of book, then they get bigger again. Story of Little Edgar the Elephant. Illustrated by Pat Sanchez (Included at no additional charge are the two cut-outs from a magazine in the time period that someone had placed in the book.) Top Speed Akron, Ohio. The Saalfield Publishing Company, 1944. Stapled wraps open bottom to top. Almost pristine condition for the age, with only slight yellowing. Pages have not been colored. Assume ink in the paper has long ago dried up too much for use with water. Cute action pictures of a young boy and his dog.