During the 1950’s Andy Warhol worked as a commercial artist in New York and illustrated a number of children’s stories for Nelson Doubleday Inc. - publisher of the Best in Children’s Books series.
The illustrations shown here are from The Magic Porridge Pot in Volume 21...
Warhol also provided art for several other stories in this series including Card Games Are Fun (Volume 27 - 1958), The Little Red Hen (Volume 15 - 1958) and Homemade Orchestra (Volume 7 - 1958).
"Once upon a time a cat, a mouse, a dog and a little red hen all lived together in a pretty little house..."
Cute! If you ever stumble upon a copy you'd better snatch it up as resale value continues to rise and copies are harder and harder to find.
