Book Covers, Day 4

[elmey]

gevr nominated me to post covers of seven books I love - one cover a day for a week. There is to be no explanation or review, just covers. Each time I post I will ask someone else to take up the challenge. Obviously it goes without saying that if I tag you and you don't want to it, you don't have to do it. Please do not feel obligated to join in

Comments

[jkkitty]

"artist to the whole Swedish nation." I heard of him but never knew what he was about.

[elmey]

My mother had two small watercolors that her father had painted (he died when she was a girl), and they were similar to Larsson's work--he grew up Estonian, but his parents were originally from Sweden. So for me the paintings and scenes in the book are a glimpse of the past that she knew.

Larsson shows his house and his family in such an idyllic way, who wouldn't want to be there!

[akane42me]

This looks like a beautiful book! I love that it takes you to the past as seen through your mother's eyes.
Oh, to have an outing in the woods like this:)

[elmey]

And they have the loveliest house (click to see large version):

[saki101]

What a beautiful cover! I've seen photos of his paintings and I liked that many of them seemed like illustrations of some wonderful story.

[elmey]

He clearly turned his family life into a story with the pictures--maybe an early version of reality TV? It's romanticized of course, but so so lovely.

[saki101]

They are and they're full of action, rather than posed and static.

Many of them look like they should go along with folktales.