Poor Cecco - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

Magery Williams Bianco, Arthur Rackham

• Publisher: Pook Press
• Year: 2013
• eBook ISBN:
  9781473381278
• Print ISBN:
  9781447477952
  9781447478300

Poor Cecco is a children's story written by Margery Williams Bianco; a celebrated British-American author, best known for penning The Velveteen Rabbit. Bianco (1881 – 1944), started writing children's books in the 1920s, and published Poor Cecco – a distinguished book rivalling the Velveteen Rabbit in 'classic status' – in 1925. It has the amusingly lengthy subtitle: The Wonderful Story of a Wonderful Wooden Dog Who Was the Jolliest Toy in the House Until He Went Out to Explore the World, which rather aptly describes the contents! The book further contains a series of dazzling colour and black-and-white illustrations – by a master of the craft; Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). One of the most celebrated painters of the British Golden Age of Illustration (which encompassed the years from 1850 until the start of the First World War), Rackham's artistry is quite simply, unparalleled. Throughout his career, he developed a unique style, combining haunting humour with dream-like romance. Presented alongside the text, his illustrations further refine and elucidate Margery Bianco's captivating narrative.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half title
• Dedication
• Title
• Contents
• Illustrations
• I How Murrum Shut the Toy-Cupboard Door
• II The Treasure Hunt
• III How Poor Cecco Lost his Tail
• IV Bulka and Poor Cecco Decide to see the World
• V Bulka Gets into Trouble
• VI The Storm
• VII Jensina
• VIII The Pursuit
• IX You are not Invited
• X The Woodchucks
• XI Jensina’s Party
• XII The Lettuce Box
• XIII Murrum’s Revenge
• XIV Where is Tubby?
• XV How Bulka Got his Letters
• XVI In the Willow Tree
• XVII The letter from the Sky
• XVIII The Rescue
• XIX The Wedding