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This is a cool page- it includes a handful of coloring pages from Little Golden books.
Here are the first 12 titles:
The Poky Little Puppy
Three Little Kittens
Bedtime Stories
The Alphabet A-Z
Mother Goose
Prayers for Children
The Little Red Hen
Nursery Songs
The Golden Book of Fairy Tales
Baby's Book
The Animals of Farmer Jones
This Little Piggy
About.com has a good Little Golden Books page:
Publishers Weekly's list of children's hardcover bestsellers from the date of publication through 1995 illustrates the popularity of the books. Little Golden Books occupy five of the top six places, with The Poky Little Puppy by Janette Sebring Lowrey in first place. It was published in 1942 and by 1995, 14,000,000 copies had been sold in domestic sales. In third, fourth, fifth, and sixth places respectively were Tootle by Gertrude Crampton (8,055,500), The Saggy Baggy Elephant by Kathryn and Byron Jackson (7,098,000), Scuffy the Tugboat by Gertrude Crampton (7,065,000), and Pat the Bunny by Dorothy Kunhardt (6,146,543). While Pat the Bunny is for babies on up, the other books are popular with children from about two to seven years old. I am delighted to report that these and other classics are still available from Golden Books.
One of my favorites was The LIttle Red Caboose. Another was the Little Red Hen.
Here you can see some great images from a hard to find LG book- Mary Blair's poetry book.
Was this one a Little Golden book? Feodor Rojankovsky illustrated many books for Golden, and his Froggy Went a Courting IS the source of the images for the frog and mouse in my head when I sing this song. His illustrations are also the images I picture when I tell the story of The Three Bears, and his work on this story was the 47th Little Golden Book.
This isn't that old- we had it when the FYG was a tot- A Fox Jumped Up One Winter's Night, adapted by Nina Barbaresi. It remains a great favorite, one I do not grow tired of (not that anybody asks me to read it anymore).
I Can Fly by Ruth Krauss was requested so often by the FYG that we hid it, yet 23 years later I can still quote "A bird can fly, and so can I. Pick, pick, pick. I'm a little chick... I can grab like a crab..." It was also illustrated by Mary Blair.
