Discovered this book by complete accident whilst looking for something completely different and was hugely impressed by the quality of the illustrations. There is little information available to us about the author and illustrator Wilhelm Dittmer except that, born in Germany, he lived between 1866 and 1909 and spent around 5 years living in New [...]

Came across this book recently and was immediately attracted to it by is cover…..they just don’t do book covers like this anymore…stunning! The content is selection of re-workings of stories from northern European mythology for children and appears to be a good read. What interested me however was that the book is illustrated by Herbert Cole [...]