Sing A Song for Sixpence
Sing A Song for Sixpence
Written by Randolph Caldecott
England, George Routledge & Sons, 1880
8.5" x 9.25"
Kerlan Collection, Children's Literature Research Collections
University of Minnesota Libraries
Randolph Caldecott continually invented new ways to enliven the printed page. Here, anticipating a cinematic device, the dynamic scene on the left-hand page fast-forwards to the scene on the right. Viewers are compelled to make the leap across time in their own imaginations, even as the king's courtiers hasten onward to deliver their pie.
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