While checking out my usual thrift stops last week, I came across this great gem. The Great Turtle Race. This board game is in great shape with all the pieces included. It is a Parker Bro. game. Made in Canada from 1976. Ages 3 to 10. Here is a Canadian commerical in french. You get 3 plastic turtles a spinner and the board you use is the inside bottom part of the the box. It's a bright pretty colorful box. The board inside also spins when the turtle goes on "wake-up" mode. We played with my 6yr old niece. She loved it, thought it was fun and silly.
This week we picked up a new board game: Scat Cat. Ever heard of it? I never seen this game before but we couldn't resits the cats on the cover. It's a Tomy/Parker bros. game, no date on it. What a cool cover! The game looks really simple to play. For ages 5 and up. The instruction are easy to follow and are written on the bottom of the box. "Players choose a crazy little cat, place it at the base of the slide. Someone says "go", and the action begins. Each player hits his lever and tries to make his cat scat to the top before anyone else. Be careful though, if you hit the lever too hard and your cat falls off or goes right over the top, you must start again from the bottom. The cats keep scatting while the little mice keep score. First one to reach the top 4 times wins!" Sounds fun! Can't wait to play. Favorite cat on the cover, "the gangster". Have a great weekend everyone!!
I own a couple of "Dean" books which I love. A Mother Goose Book of Rhymes & A Book of Fairy Tales. Both are illustrated by British children illustrators twin sister duo Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone. Their work is so beautiful and sweet. They always worked together, passing drawings back and forth across their studio until both twins were satisfied with the final outcome. Janet specialized in animals and birds. Anne focused on the period costumes that so dominated their work. Because of their symbiotic collaboration, until the death of Janet in 1979, there was never a book illustrated under either one of their names alone. I love this kitty cat procession. Over the course of their career together, the sisters illustrated more than 100 books. These included classic fairytales by Hans Christian Andersen, the Brothers Grimm, J.M. Barrie, Charles Kingsley, a series based on Biblical tales, Roger Lancelyn Green's Tales of the Greeks and Troja
very cute
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