Today I unloaded seven baskets of laundry onto my bed. I told myself I'd be back to fold them with each dump. Hours later, after the...

Illustration taken from "Baby Dear" - by Esther Wilkin, illustrated by Eloise Wilkin. Golden Press, Wisconsin, 1962.

Eloise Wilkin I love the one sock and all the cookies!

We Help Daddy (1962) by Mini Stein, illustrated by Eloise Wilkin. "The mother lode!" (All images are copyrighted © and owned by their respective holders.)

I'm taking a printmaking class at my local technical college, so I've been looking at books with engravings, woodcuts and linocuts. I pulled out this book, Narcissa Whitman, Pioneer of Oregon by Jeanette Eaton that I bought at a book sale a few years ago. The wood engravings were done by Woodi Ishmael, who I am not familiar with, so if you aren't either we can both learn something new! First off, Narcissa Whitman was a real person. She was one of the first white women to cross the Rocky…