The Tailor of Gloucester is a book to linger over, each illustration filled with such incredible detail and lovingly executed by Beatrix Potter, who got her inspiration from a waistcoat in the collection of the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington, London, where she grew up. It's no wonder I grew up itching to make lovely things! I now read many of the same books to my own children, and I thought it would be fun to put together a post featuring the favorites that have stood the test of time and continue to inspire and delight. So many of the books my mother read to us as children celebrated creativity-from gardening to sewing to knitting. That was in celebration of Beatrix Potter month at the library, complete with prints from The Tailor of Gloucester, which is, to this day, my very favorite children's book featuring sewing.
I'll never forget one that left me starry-eyed: a whole array of tiny fabric mice, wearing intricate clothes and posed as if they were embroidering a tapestry. A huge glass case in the center held book-themed displays that changed every month. When we got tired of the ones we had all over the house, Mom packed us up for a trip to the library in Richmond, Virginia, an incredible place with the most delightful children's section. He continued to write and illustrate children's books until his death in 1985 from leukemia.My creative mother read to my siblings and me almost from birth, and I grew up surrounded by piles of books. Some of Jack Kent's more famous works are Silly Goose, The Biggest Shadow in the Zoo and The Caterpillar and The Polliwog. Meebles outstanding picture book of the year for 1970. Jack Kent's book, Just Only John, received awards from the Chicago Graphics Associates and the Children's Book Clinic. He began writing and illustrating children's books in 1968.
Jack Kent and his wife named their home on the banks of the San Antonio River King Aroo's Castle. Jack Kent wrote and drew the 1968 syndicated Christmas cominstrip, Why Christmas Almost Wasn't. The early comic strips were collected in a 192 page book, King Aroo, published in 1953. His first nationally recognized work was King Aroo whcih was syndicated and distributed from 1950-1965. He left high school at the age of 15 and began a career as a freelance commercial artist. Jack Kent was born in 1920 in Burlington, Iowa.
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