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Jeg er av og til på Bruktbo, med denne bloggen på Sutterøleiret. Der kan man finne skatter av mange slag, for ikke så lenge siden fant jeg ei fargebok. Det var Jenny fra Forrådal som hadde hatt den, i 1950. Hun har farget flittig, men svakt. Var det for å spare fargene tro?  Jeg ser at hun hadde rødblåblyant, slik vi også hadde da vi gikk på skolen. Det var blått i ene enden, rødt i den andre. For å få ekstra fin rødfarge, for eksempel når man skulle tengne jåledame, var det lurt å putte blyanten inn i munnen og suge litt på den (jeg kjenner smaken i munnen når jeg tenker på det). Det ser jeg at Jenny også har gjort, bare se på de røde munnene! Og krokodilletennene! Ellers hadde nok ikke denne boka vært gangbar i dag nei. Bare se hvordan det lille svarte barnet er framstilt, splitter nakent, men uten å vite om det. Og nødrimene, hjelpe meg!

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Do you want to colour together with the cat? Even thou the cat are colouring with its eyes closed, it will be better than you (which nonsense!)

You cannot be nervous, because the lion can be terribly angry ( and will feel it when you are afraid??)

A tigers leap can be very nice, and this one is doing it well (it is very well tamed)

The neck and the legs of the giraf is very long, and many think thet are beautiful)

There are many wild animals, but not so many as dagerous as the crocodile

I am now and then visiting a second hand shop called Bruktbo, with this blog. There you can find treasures of many kinds, almost for free. I found this colouring book there not long ago;Jenny, who was a little girl in 1950, was the owner and colourist. The colouring is very weak, may be it was because she wanted to use as little of her crayons as possible, in order to let the last for a long time? I can see that she has used a redbluepencil; we also had pencils like that at school, they were red in one end, and blue in the other, and if you put say the red end into your mouth, and sucked a little on it, the red became more intense, and would be perfect when you were drawing ladies with lipstickmouths.  I can see that Jenny used the same tecnique, becase the lips, and the teeth of the crocodile,  are all very, very red (and dagerous). Some of the picture could not have been presented in a book for children to day; I am especially thinking of the picture with the little black child, stark naked, but oblivious of the fact.