Come Follow Me~Gyo Fujikawa~1979~Very Good~Elves~Fairies~Gnomes~Trolls~Collectible~Free Shipping

Come Follow Me to the Secret World of Elves and Fairies and Gnomes and Trolls ~Gyo Fujikawa~1979~Very Good~Elves~Fairies~Gnomes~Trolls~Collectible~Free Shipping.

This classic children’s book is in very good condition. Some cover wear and corner bumping. One inscription covered by a clean address sticker on first page. See photos. No other markings or inscriptions. Color and black and white illustrations throughout the book. Would make a great gift collectible book!


Gyo Fujikawa (November 3, 1908 – November 26, 1998) was an American illustrator and children’s book author. A prolific creator of more than 50 books for children, her work is regularly in reprint and has been translated into 17 languages and published in 22 countries. Her most popular books, Babies and Baby Animals, have sold over 1.7 million copies in the U.S. Fujikawa is recognized for being the earliest mainstream illustrator of picture books to include children of many races in her work, before it became common to do so.

Gyo Fujikawa was born in Berkeley, California, to Japanese parents, Hikozō and Yūko Fujikawa (藤川幽子). The masculine name Gyo (pronounced “gyoh”) is after a Chinese emperor her father admired.

Gyo Fujikawa moved to Los Angeles to attend Chouinard Art Institute in 1926, having received a scholarship, and befriended Japanese dancer Michio Ito and many fellow Nisei writers and artists. After graduating and spending a year in Japan, she was on the Chouinard faculty from 1933-37. She worked for the Walt Disney Company in California as a promotional artist, before moving to New York in 1941. Fujikawa avoided the forced internment of West Coast Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II as she was living in New York at the time. Her family, however, spent the war in the internment camp at Rohwer, Arkansas. From 1943-51 she worked for pharmaceutical advertising agency William Douglas McAdams.

Fujikawa’s notable commercial clients included Upjohn Company vitamins, Beech-Nut baby food and Eskimo Pie, creating the round-faced child icon for the ice cream treat.[citation needed] She created six stamps for the United States Post Office, including the 1997 32¢ “yellow rose” self-adhesive stamp and the United States-Japan Treaty ratification centenary stamp of 1960. Fujikawa was a life member of the Society of Illustrators. - From Wikipedia

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