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Vintage Reading.
"Here's a Penny" by Carolyn Haywood ('44) and "Under the Apple Tree" by Odille Ousley ('59). Although they came a generation before me, "B is for Betsy" and the rest of the Betsy books were all read fervently by me as a five year old, along with Beverly Cleary's classics. And the likes of the reading primers along the lines of the "Dick and Jane" books that this "Apple Tree" one is one of were massively used and abused by me in a body of collage work I did back in grad school, using primarily the text, cutting out phrases like "we help with the work"; "the family all helps" to juxtapose with all sorts of irreverent imagery. See my etsy page for the pair of these:
"Here's a Penny" by Carolyn Haywood ('44) and "Under the Apple Tree" by Odille Ousley ('59). Although they came a generation before me, "B is for Betsy" and the rest of the Betsy books were all read fervently by me as a five year old, along with Beverly Cleary's classics. And the likes of the reading primers along the lines of the "Dick and Jane" books that this "Apple Tree" one is one of were massively used and abused by me in a body of collage work I did back in grad school, using primarily the text, cutting out phrases like "we help with the work"; "the family all helps" to juxtapose with all sorts of irreverent imagery. See my etsy page for the pair of these:
