“There’s no beginning to the farmer’s year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding”

[larryhammer]

Some pieces of history(ies):

Cat and Girl: One Panel Every 250 Years Since 30,000 BC[E]. (via)

Four Questions to Ask When Beloved Books Haven’t Aged Well. The last one isn’t a question for everyone (and more than a little self-serving) but the first three are relevant all. (via)

Richard Scarry’s Busytown updated for 2014 and 2018 by someone who did pay attention to that last question. But where’s Goldbug? (via)

---L.

Subject quote from The Land, Spring, Vita Sackville-West.

Comments

[sartorias]

How my daughter loved Richard Scarry's little towns. Before she was two she could sit for half an hour or more, poring intently over one page.

[larryhammer]

I did too, as does TBD. I've managed to identify two of the three books I used to have, but not the one with a full-page spread of starlings all squawking something. Which, of course, I would read Every. Single. One. out loud every time I got to that page.

[thistleingrey]

heh, the 2018 Busytown is too true. Reason and I, independently, love finding Charlie--usually wearing red and yellow, though sometimes Reason permits some other mouse to be Charlie.

[larryhammer]

Charlie, who is sometimes an Able Baker.

[thistleingrey]

precisely.

[larryhammer]

I don't think TBD recognizes the often-observing mouse as also ABC.

[thistleingrey]

I've probably tainted the local data set by telling Reason fairly early that I used to like looking for Charlie.