Other editions of book Johnny Crow's Party

Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862-1940) was a British artist and writer. Brooke was born on Sept. 24, 1862, in Birkenhead, England. His skillful and witty illustrations in Andrew Lang’s Nursery Rhyme Book (1897) established his reputation as a leading children’s book illustrator of pen-andink line drawings and watercolors. His works include: Johnny Crow’s Garden: A Picture Book (1903), The Golden Goose Book (1904), The Three Little Pigs (1904), Tom Thumb (1904), Johnny Crow’s Party: Another Picture Book (1907), Ring O’ Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book (1922), Johnny Crow’s New Garden (1935) and Little Bo-Peep (? ).

In the second of this wonderful series, Johnny, literature's most hospitable crow, further improves his garden and invites the other animals round for a party. Old favourites are here, such as the Lion, the Bear and the never-mentioned penguins; but new animals are introduced too, such as a French-speaking cockatoo, a sleepy sheep and a kangaroo who likes blue roses. This colour version has been carefully restored to keep as close to the original as possible, faithfully reproducing the detailed pen and ink drawings and the rich colour illustrations.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.