Happy birthday, John Lennon! Celebrate with We Love You Beatles, an adorable vintage children’s book.

Everything I Need To Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book – grown-up advice on modern life from vintage children’s books

For graphic design icon Paul Rand’s centennial, his little-known vintage children’s book

For legendary graphic designer Paul Rand’s centennial today, Little 1 – the second is his trilogy of little-known vintage children’s books, written by his then-wife Ann, a charming story about numbers, soulmates, and belonging.

For Andy Warhol’s birthday, his little-known pre-pop-art vintage children’s book

For beloved children’s book author Ruth Krauss’s birthday today, I’ll Be You and You Be Me – her wonderful 1954 ode to friendship and the imagination, illustrated by young Maurice Sendak.

July 23, 1951 — how a vintage children’s book illustrated by graphic novel godfather Lynd Ward saved New York’s iconic Little Red Lighthouse

Gone Is Gone: or, The Story of a Man Who Wanted to Do Housework – a visionary proto-feminst children’s book from 1935 by pioneering artist and author Wanda Gág

Down the rabbit hole, Moomin-style – Tove Jansson’s gorgeous, rare vintage illustrations for Alice in Wonderland

Leonardo da Vinci’s life and legacy, in a vintage illustrated pop-up book adapted in animated GIFs

Gorgeous vintage illustrations for The Hobbit from around the world – Japan, Sweden, Russia, the Czech Republic and more, including Tolkien’s own originals.

Iconic Italian graphic artist Bruno Munari’s rare vintage “interactive” picture-books – pioneering visual storytelling that lives on as a manifesto for the magic of paper books

Amazing Croatian illustrated edition of The Cat and the Devil, James Joyce’s little-known children’s book, also illustrated in English by Gerald Rose (an extremely rare edition) and Roger Blachon. 

Joyce’s only other children’s book, The Cats of Copenhagen, was discovered after his death and published only recently. 

Complement with more little-known children’s books by famous authors: Mark Twain, Aldous Huxley, Maya Angelou, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Gertrude Stein, Carson McCulllers, and J.R.R. Tolkien 

In 1964, Carson McCullers wrote a little-known and lovely children’s book with a strong existential bend and an undercurrent of science and astronomy

Upside Down Day – lovely vintage children’s book about those days when nothing seems to be right, penned by the director of NASA’s Public Affairs Office.