Here is a rather fun children's fictional story about romance. I did not read it in detail but thought some of these illustrations speak for themselves. Basically a nice saucer from Venus meets and falls in love with a missile from Earth. (see below)
Claire, Stella. Illustrated by Edward Andrewes. London : Werner Laurie. (61 p.) 1954
In an idle moment I searched for this as it's one of the few books I remember from my very early childhood. (I was born in 1952). How lovely to find it and to be able to revisit so many of it's unusual (for the time) illustrations. Thank you!
ReplyDeleteI remember this as one of my favourite childhood books in the 1950s. However I remember the scientists cutting off ronnies pointed nose (hence the tear in the illustration) and putting on a short hemisphere nose and turning him into a missile. It all ended happily ever after, but this was the real heart of the narrative and is missing from the illustrations above. This was very much a 1950s morality tale and perhaps it is not PC now to mention it.
ReplyDeleteBut thanks for the sentimental memory anyway