Play foil

Children frolic on these pages, each one has taken on the features and colors of a flower, which he wears like a costume. The scenes follow one another: a caterpillar holds the target of archery here, speedwells and violets play cat perched on the mushrooms, we find General Coquelicot and the blueberries, which represent the little soldiers, while the snail operates the seesaw of the swing! The text gives us each time the name of the game and that of the flowers. Released in 1944, the Sans-Souci collection, consisting of four small books, is one of Elisabeth Ivanovsky's most charming creations. The thoroughness of the details of nature creates lively and complex paintings, a tiny theater of nature, where the eyes of small readers wander and marvel, in a format suitable for their little hands!