By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 31/07/2026Pages from Walter Crane's beautifully illustrated version of Aesop's fables, shortened and put into limericks for the younger reader and first published in 1887. www.tumblr.com/publicdomain... 131
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 31/07/2026The Duck quaketh... The Wolf howleth" — from what many consider to be the first picture book for children, Orbis Sensualium Pictus (1658). www.tumblr.com/publicdomain... 310026
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 31/07/2026www.tumblr.com/thevaultofth... 0283
Filth Wizard @tinyweasel.eurosky.social · 31/07/2026They didn't have squeaking back then. And babies lived in big oyster shells. 010
