The James Reeves - Story Book

Book: James ReevesBook: Children's

7 Oct

Written By Fred

Author: James Reeves

Publisher: Heinemann, London

Publication Date: 1978

Kings and cottagers, elves and enchanters, humor, nonsense, wit and magic can all be found in this storybook. James Reeves has drawn upon the rich store of tales he has written for children over the past 30 years to make this handsome and substantial collection.

This gallery is composed of the EA’s illustrations from this book.

Front Cover

Man telling a funny story to a woman

Rhyming Will - city street scene, boy and dog running out of a house

Kid leaving table after dinner

Will runs away to London with his dog Spot

Lord Mayor sitting on a chair with bandaged leg

Nabob from India came out of a carriage and asked to see the boy

Boy gives the dog an extra juicy bone to keep him quiet

Boy playing a drum and a little girl dancing

Boat sailing over the tops of the mountains, two men on horseback looking up the boat

The strange Journey of Tuflongo

Boy picking up a fruit from a tree

Boy jumping high in the air

Old woman reading newspaper sitting in a rocking-chair

The woman takes a wool to knit the socks, the carpenter leaves the cottage with his tool bag

Cat and mouse

Cat with mouse's tail in its mouth

Bakery store

Cat drinks milk from a plate, mouse looks at its tail

Boy and girl looking at gnomes in a gnome factory

Man and woman talking in a garden

Children at orphanage have a meeting

Four gnomes in a garden at night

Old witch speaking to a man outside a castle

Man picking a flower up the hill

Dark room with bird cages, old woman and a man talking

Stonemason at church construction site

Man speaking to an elf

Stonemasons at church construction site

Angry mother showing her son the door

Man passing a house with with a donkey upside down on his back

Bird on a brick wall looking at a garden

Horseman in front of a tall building without a door

Old man talking to his wife sitting on a bench with his shoe in hand

Man and woman hiding behind a curtain looking at elves repairing shoes

Elves dancing with shoes in their hands

Little girl sleeping in a bed, holding a doll

Servant bringing a fish dish at the dinner table

A giant standing next to a man who is about to shoot an arrow towards deer

Sailor on a boat inside a hanging glass bottle

Glass ball showing a woman looking out the window

A man from the broken bottle rolls down a glass ball with a woman inside

Chinese potter showing judges his vase

A man looking out the window of a Chinese house

Old man on dying bed with his three sons standing nearby, a cat and a cock

Cannon firing over corn field

Silhouettes of three horsemen in front of a city

Donkey and a hound in front of a fence

People running scared out the house from a donkey, hound, cat and cock stacked on top of each other

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