Autumn Leaves

Seasonal notes, from library sale packets of children's book illustrations. (Previous example.)

This was first published in 1948: Now It's Fall, by Lois Lenski.


It's part of her "Seasons Series," described in this bibliography:

Using a rhyming text and simplified illustrations, Lenski depicts the change of seasons as it affects children: windy days, gardening, playing outside, and celebrating holidays such as Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas... All the books use a child-size format.

There's no sign of when this particular printing was. But the look is very different from the "gently recolored" pages of the latest (2000) edition, as a few preview pages demonstrate.

And cut from an unknown book—

Other side—
The clothes might belong to almost any time from the 1920s-40s.

But, fashion was on a somewhat longer cycle then.