Sunday Safari - Taiga

Diana Sudyka, Taiga

Today's post was inspired by the chilly northern winds sweeping through Florence,

and by Werner Herzog's documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, about a group

 of fearless and resourceful people who really know how to survive in the cold.

Just like these wonderful animals...

Feodor Rojankovsky, Panache l'ecureil, 1939, thanks to The Visual Telling of Stories

T. Kapustin, The first sun, 1987, thanks to polny_shkaf's amazing visual library 

Nathalie Lete, Le Jaseur

Kate McLelland, thanks to Kickcan & Conkers 

Mikhail Belomlinsky, Wonders under the feet, 1967, thanks to bookvart

Ene Pikk, Kärp, 1981, thanks to vaula

V. Kanevsky, Winter Poems, 1984, via Hanna Rivka

Nikolai Tyrsa, Snezhnaya kniga, 1926

Gwen Keraval, Le fils qui sauva son père

Georgy Nikolsky, Year in the woods, 1978 and

Nikita Charushin, My first zoology book, 1984, thanks to Book Graphics

Animalsleepstories, The Old Caribou

Sunday Safari - A Walk in the Woods

 Camilla Engman, Morran in the woods

 Diana Sudyka

  from Nurseryland Annual 1969 (illustrator?), thanks to buglady 1104

 Petr Poš, Zvirata V Lese, 1969, at terryposters

 T. Zebrova, Lullaby at Library Things

 Celestino Piatti, The Happy Owls, 1963, thanks to art.crazed

Adelheid Schait, Nikolaus und der dumme Nuck, 1987, thanks to Natalie Birkle

 Elizabeth and Gerald Rose, The Great Oak, thanks to Faber Books

 Mirko Hanák, Bambi, 1967, 

thanks to a billion tastes and tunes

Barbara Cooney, Bambi, a life in the woods, 1970

Who lives in the forest and what grows in the forest, (author/year?)

 Jenny Williams, The SIlver Wood, 1966, thanks to try-whistling-this

Sunday Safari - Mothering

Kazumasa Nagai, 1993

My beloved puppies in 1992: Alice and Michelle holding newborn Julia

Pablo Amargo

Poster by Shino Suefusa

Diana Sudyka

Victor Dubrovsky, Sheep

Brian Wildsmith, illustration from Die Reise nach Bethlehem

Jacques Hnidzovsky, Wolverine, terracotta, 1951

Annegert Fuchshuber, two ilustrations from Zwei und Mehr

Leia Bell, He reminded of my two year old in so many ways

Lisa Congdon, Giraffes

Thanks to art.crazed's great collection of vintage children's books

A very happy day to all mothers and their children!

Sunday Safari – The Bear Has Awoken

Mieczyslaw Wasilewski, Polish poster for the movie The bear by Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1989

Gradually coming out of hibernation, everything around and inside me is change.

Looking at all these bears, with their different moods and characters,

I wonder which ones am I going to wear for Spring?

Illustration by Mai Miturich for Merry Rhymes by Agnia Barto, 1976,

thanks to art.crazed's amazing flickr stream

Cover of Mishka the bear by Ingeborg Meyer-Rey, 1966,

thanks to allerleirau's beautiful Vintage Collection on flickr

Bear by Steve Jenkins

illustration from See again, say again by Antonio Frasconi, 1964,

thanks again to art.crazed

Boris Kriukov, illustration from Koza-dereza, 1920s

Victor Dubrovsky, Fat bear

Grizzly t-shirt design by Michael Robertson at Samba for Rats

Dan Bob Thompson, Two bears

Trust your instincts at Ashley G and Drew's etsy store

Lisa Congdon, California grizzly

Diana Sudyka, Edith Frost and the Zings poster, 2006

for sale at poster cabaret

Jane Mount, Amy's bear

Gennady Pavlishin, illustration for Folktales of the Amur,

thanks to Poemas del Rio Wang

Illustration for Merry Rhymes by Brian WIldsmith, 1976,

one of flamenconut's Tasty Morsels