Storytime, Wattle Babies, Choosing a Pod For a Boat, Gibbs May, c1918

Wattle Babies By May Bibbs

Choosing a Pod for a Boat

Hand coloured

Date: 1918

Artist: Gibbs, May

Author: Gibbs, May

Novel: Wattle Babies

Paper Size: 215 x 135mm

Condition: very good

Price: $50

Description; Hand coloured engraving

Provenance:

This print is from a broken Wattle Babies Story Book from 1918

Series of 5 booklets

1916, Gumnut Babies and Gum Blossom Babies

1917: Flannel Flowers and Other Bush Babies

 May Gibbs first book was "About Us" published in 1912...a children's fantasy story about the chimney pots of London

May returned to Sydney in 1913 where she settled

 To read more about May Gibbs

About May Gibbs - Australian Children's Author & Illustrator