{"id":99,"date":"2005-05-04T16:04:26","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T16:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=99"},"modified":"2015-07-26T16:36:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-26T05:36:14","slug":"little-golden-books-tibor-gergely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/05\/04\/little-golden-books-tibor-gergely\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Golden Books: Tibor Gergely"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following illustration is by Tibor Gergely from the Little Golden Book &#8216;Houses&#8217; by Elsa Jane Werner. I&#8217;m posting it as a comparison to the one by Richard Scarry in another Little Golden Book, &#8216;Cars and Trucks&#8217;, over at <a href=\"http:\/\/weewonderfuls.typepad.com\/wee_wonderfuls\/2005\/05\/look_what_i_fou.html\">Wee Wonderfuls<\/a>. There is an interesting discussion there about how in updates of the book that particular illustration has been changed to accommodate a more feminist attitude to gender roles. This one obviously belongs firmly in the earlier era, and I wonder if it was changed in a similar way later on?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos9.flickr.com\/12274892_5d143cf9d6.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have an exact date for this book &#8211; its one of a set of four books that together make up a &#8216;Little Golden Book Library&#8217; that I bought in about 1983, and the dates given collectively are 1948 through 1969.<\/p>\n<p>I was interested to see in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiborgergely.com\/site\/About_Tibor_Gergely.html\">online bio<\/a> of Tibor Gergely that as a young man he <a title=\"bio\" name=\"bio\"><\/a>worked for two years in a Vienna marionette theatre as a puppet designer and stage decorator :-).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following illustration is by Tibor Gergely from the Little Golden Book &#8216;Houses&#8217; by Elsa Jane Werner. I&#8217;m posting it as a comparison to the one by Richard Scarry in another Little Golden Book, &#8216;Cars and Trucks&#8217;, over at Wee Wonderfuls. There is an interesting discussion there about how in updates of the book that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,193],"tags":[1359,251,250,1390,248,61,179,249,247],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-illustration","tag-books","tag-feminism","tag-gender","tag-illustration","tag-little-golden-books","tag-marionettes","tag-puppetry-puppets","tag-richar-scarry","tag-tibor-gergely"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-1B","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3196,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions\/3196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}