Books with author Gyo Fujikawa

William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems—first published in 1969—are among literature’s most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawa’s appealing illustrations depict children of all races sweetly interacting, as well as an engagingly rendered menagerie of animals and the natural world in all its wonderment. Among the verses that children will love are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Christmas Bells,” Lewis Carroll’s “The Melancholy Pig,” and Eugene Fields’ “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,” along with proverbs, limericks, nursery rhymes, and folk songs.

William Blake, Kate Greenaway, Emily Dickinson: the writers in this charming anthology of 200 poems—first published in 1969—are among literature€™s most beloved. And Gyo Fujikawa€™s appealing illustrations depict children of all races sweetly interacting, as well as an engagingly rendered menagerie of animals and the natural world in all its wonderment. Among the verses that children will love are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow€™s “Christmas Bells,€ Lewis Carroll€™s “The Melancholy Pig,€ and Eugene Fields€™ “Wynken, Blynken, and Nod,€ along with proverbs, limericks, nursery rhymes, and folk songs.

“Wouldn’t you love to have a furry, fuzzy, feathery, or slithery smooth friend?” What an irresistible combination: a menagerie of Gyo Fujikawa’s most irresistible animals with their human companions! Mrs. Cat and her kitten family parade with a little girl, fuzzy puppies hug and snuggle, a gentle fawn comes by to say hello, and an elephant gives a small boy a ride while carrying another child on her trunk. A charming final picture shows several children with some small furry and feathery friends.