a lovely collection of vintage children’s book cover designs
(via GIGI Interior Design 集集設計)

photos of the Poplar Picture bookstore in Beijing, designed by Sako in 2005

verymuch:

The Kid’s Republic Bookstore

This space was designed by Sako, Japan’s leading architecture firm, for Poplar Picture Bookstore, Japan’s largest children’s book publisher. (via my modern met)

This is a fantastic kid space. All for books!

“The Revolutionary animal shapes of Vladimir Lebedev”
(discovered via animalarium, above cover c. 1925)

A film adaptation of the 1978 children’s book classic, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs will hit theaters in Fall 2009.