Children

1964: Child Welfare (Design - RDE 'Ootje' Oxenaar)

A young artist gets to work with his paintbrush

Meanwhile down the corridor a girl is playing a recorder

while toy-making is in progress at the work shop. 

2002: Astrid Lindgren 1907-2002

Well away from school these children are having adventures while Astrid Lindgren looks benignly on. Starting from the top left and going clockwise we have - Pippi Longstocking; Karlsson on the Roof; Emil of Lonneberga, Madicken,  Lotta on Troublemaker Street and lastly The Brothers Lionheart 

Weirdly before I had chosen my stamps for this week I read how the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award graphics had been redesigned, the result was inspired by her stories and her shorthand notebooks. I knew nothing about her unique shorthand, of which little has been deciphered. There is now a Swedish project called the Astrid Lindgren Code to decode the manuscripts.  The Design Week article is here

Sunday Stamps II theme this week is - Children - go play at See It On A Postcard