Sunday Safari - City Life

Viggo Vagnby, 1959 

Alice and Martin Provensen, The Animal Fair, 1952, at R.Michelson Galleries

Art Seiden, Dinosaur comes to town, 1963, thanks to Golden Gems

Syd Hoff, Sammy the Seal, 1959, thanks to Vintage Kids' Books My Kid Loves

Roger Duvoisin, Veronica, 1961

Lu Green

Wayne Pate

Vincent Mathy

Natalie Russell, Moon Rabbit

 Michael Sowa, Esterhazy, The Rabbit Prince

 Gabriella Giandelli at Galerie Martel

Chiho Makino

Victo Ngai

Beatrice Alemagna, Un Lion à Paris

Stéphane Poulin, Bestiaire

Marco Cazzato

Shuichi Nakano, Searching for paradise, thanks to Pink Tentacle

Sunday Safari - Dear Donkeys

Lauren Nassef

 Jean Dubuffet, The Lost Donkey, 1959

 Richard Müller 1920, via Galleria dell'incisione

 Albert Lamorisse, 1951, thanks to Agence Eureka

 Józef Wilkon

 Heide Stollinger

From Wild Animals by Rop van Mierlo

Swig , Tiny Donkey

 Brian Wildsmith

 Daniel Egnéus 

 Elizabeth st Hilaire Nelson 

Illustration from La ferme du père castor by Hélène Guertik, 1937, thanks to art.crazed

Roger Duvoisin, Donkey—donkey, 1933

Illustration from Alle Tiere Schlafen Schon by Hans Schmandt, 1973, 

thanks to Arthur van Kruining

Sunday Safari – In the Peaceable Kingdom

Lion and fish illustration by Irina Troitskaya

Illustration by Toshiyuki Fukuda

Stuffed lions from Takiyaje, aka Lubov Nalogina

Illustration by Tatsushi Hara, thanks to Stickers and Stuff

Movie poster by Jaroslav Zelenka, 1955, from Terry Posters

Afrika lion by Lisa Larson at Gustavsberg studio, 1968,

from hi+lomodern (sorry - I just saw it's already sold!)

Spacer Iwa, book cover by Miroslaw Tokarczyk, 1973

thanks to tralaloskop's precious archives, and to Kickcan and Conkers for the tip

The Happy Lion by Roger Duvoisin used to be one of my daughters' favorite books

Illustration from Brian Wildsmith's ABC, 1962,

from hunkamunka's Vintage Children's Books set on flickr

Leones by Violeta Lópiz

Anonimous Czech movie poster, 1970, from Terry Posters

Poster from the Save series by Kazumasa Nagai, 2001

and finally, from Un lion à Paris by Beatrice Alemagna, the illustration that inspired this post,

together with the beautiful article about this and other meek lions in Le figure dei libri.