pretty posters for Our Town

Kentucky's version

Ales Tsao’s cover art for the 1961 edition of Our Town.

I love this book artist.

Was Mx. Tsao just a very typical 1960’s illustrator and I love the style of that time? or did they have a hand in making the style of the time?

Ms. Tsao’s covers look like the books I saw on my high school teacher’s bookshelves - their collection acquired as college English majors.

Funny drawings.

I would pick up that copy of Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope, only because that drawing of 2 vicars smirking like they are about to do each other dirty has me at hello.

If I put that Oliver Twist in front of my kids I bet I would get some takers. They may even persist through the 7 commas, 3 semicolons and 1 colon of the first sentence to get to whatever moment has that kid with the candle cackling.