Kleine Wesen : Text von Hans Bötticher; Bilder von Fritz Petersen
Kleine Wesen is a German picture book of verse for children, text by Hans Bötticher and illustrations by Fritz Petersen, published by Schreiber in 1900. Its pages pair short rhymed German poems with line drawings of small scenes: a king and a tailor, a naughty boy at school, a button falling into a snake's path. The pictures are simple black-outline drawings on cream paper, with little shading, so a designer could borrow their clean contour line, economical compositions and text set alongside images.
