Warne's Story Book of Animals.: With Eight Plates in Colour

Attractive book with 3 young children washing a dog in a big pan of water on the front board. No date, but the book was given to a boy at Christmas in 1939, on front endpaper. On the inside of the front cover, there is a wonderful Harry Rountree illustration wherein a dog is standing on his rear legs and saying to a bird nesting on a branch above his head, with the caption "You're nesting in my mistress's bonnet." There are also 8 full-page colour illustrations of other animals and birds. Except for the "browning" of the poor paper, the contents of the book are VG. 21 stories with small b/w illustrations by B. Butler. The full-page colour illustrations seem to all been done by G. D. Rowlandson.

Inside the rear cover is another drawing by Harry Rountree with a dog sitting on top of his dog-house and either barking or howling, perhaps because his food dish is empty.

On the rear board is a lovely advertisement for "The Tweenie Books", a series of story books specially written for young people between the ages of six and nine. 4 other books are mentioned as well, 2 of which, "The Disappearing Trick" and "The Spanish Gold-Fish" were illustrated by A. E. Bestall who illustrated Rupert Bear for the London Daily Express, from 1935 to 1965, and who also did some of the illustrations in the Rupert Bear annuals.