One of the perks of getting older is that I suddenly own lots of antiquarian books, although I am almost sure they were new just a few years ago. For instance, I still have a few books from my preschool childhood which are now antiquarian treasures. I think the oldest one may be the Wolkenschaf (cloud sheep):
or possibly the green parrot:
(which takes on an entirely new meaning now that there are feral green parrots in many cities in Germany and in the UK).
and then the three more mechanical ones, on the tram, the plane and the crane:
and finally the more overtly educational ones:
That pseudochronological ordering is purely subjective by how deeply buried I feel my associated memories are. Don't want to spoil it by checking actual publication dates. But may reread the book some time. I took the photos ten years ago probably to share them on my bookish blog on tumblr and just rediscovered them by accident looking for something else.
PS We put on the green stars to mark the books as German language books for our preschool children growing up bilingually.
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