Der gestiefelte Kater : nach dem gleichnamigen Märchen für Kinder erzählt und in beweglichen Bildern dargestellt
A nineteenth-century German picture book from 1864 by Vater Otto, published by Verlag von G. A. Poenicke, retelling the Puss in Boots fairy tale for children in hand-coloured scenes with rhymed German verse beneath each. The pictures show a cat in a feathered hat and boots, a young miller's son, a king and princess, and a rabbit caught in a tree, drawn in flat, bright watercolour with a simple ornamental border. A designer could take the naive folk-print colouring, the bordered panel layouts, and the stacked image-over-text page structure as a template for storybook pages.
