ABC Book

i<JK

ii^^iii0U^~

1

BOOK gj^CB FALLS

J

.F197 ik.

I

A.B.C.B.

$3.50

ABC BOOK by C. An

B. Falls

all-time favorite

field, this

and a

classic in its

ABC

big and beautiful

book

by distinguished artist C. B. Falls has been making new friends with de-

iCDE

lighted children for over forty years.

When

was

it

re-issued in 1957, a

noted children's book reviewer hailed the event with these words: "Despite aU the ABC books that have come our since this was first published way .

.

.

(1923), almost none have measured up to it in direct appeal to the two to four year old.

.

.

.

Astonishingly

mod-

ern in conception and design." Anne Carroll Moore, the famous children's librarian, stated:

"We may

well feel proud that an

ABC

admirable in design and

in color print-

book so

ing has been produced on this side of the Atlantic. Mr. Falls designed the

book for his

who

ter

little

likes a

three-year-old daugh-

big book with

lots of

on fourfrom printed and wood blocks color plates, and the artist has personpictures.

The drawings

are

superintended the reproduction of them. The imagination of a child or

own

is

left free to

thrill of

capture by

its

recognition the familiar

new-old medium where color has not obscured the outline nor played too many tricks with nature.

in a

"The book

will take

its

own

for a living child for

li-

was designed whose mentality

but the fact that

it

the artist had such evident respect

stamps

it first

which bids

of

all as

a children's

fair to exert a

book

very consid-

erable influence on American picture

books."

STU

place in

the art departments of schools and braries,

NOP

cut

ally

grown-up

tHIJK

^XYZ

1

ABCDE FGH J K I

LMNOP QRSTU VWXYZ

ABC BOOK

ABC BOOK DESICNED AND

CUT ON WOOD BY CB- FALLS NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC.

GARDEN CITY

J

BJF

BOSTON rudllC

^ ^

COPYRIGHT

1923

BY

DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC. INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION RIGHTS ALL

RESERVED,

INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVLAN PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES

IS

FOR BEAR

IS

FOR CAT

IS

FOR DUCK ^Ji^'^^'!

IS

FOR

ELEPHAHTi

iSFoa GIRAFFE

FOR JAGUAR

IS

':^-"^^^,'''^'''''''^*g^"'"'--'-

"' -

^

-'

V

LION

ISfOR

NEWT

IS

FOR

PELICAN

IS

FOR.

ROOSTERS

IS

FOR SWA^^

IS

FOR

UNICORN L

|W

IS

FOR

WOL

IS

FOR ZEBRA

ABCDF LMNOi

QRSTL VWXYZ

Some of the most respected and admired authorities in the field of dren

chil-

s

literature

comment on

BOOK.

ABCl FGHl LMN