Seasons (John Burningham) (1969)

John Burningham, creator of the Wall Friezes and such characters as Borka and Humbert, has produced a new kind of book for children.
Seasons is a collection of seasonal scenes with a simple text and four superb posters, 22¼ x 17½, all in extravagant colour. The year has rarely looked so beautiful—branches speckled with buds, flowers in the grass, picnics in cornfields, bonfires smoking, leaves flying, white frost lying on the bare trees and a huge moon. Seasons is a book to help children understand Nature, it is a source of gay and unusual decoration for their rooms, and it is a treasury of brilliant pictures.

Condition: some slight spotting. Lacks three of the four posters. Remaining poster spotted to verso (with some light wear to corners).