Die zerbrochene Tafel : Bilderbuch
Die zerbrochene Tafel is a German picture book for children, self-published in 1900 and credited to the author-illustrator E. Degenfeld, with its story told through hand-coloured drawings of mice. The pictures show a yellow cheese-like lump dotted with green spots that a mouse nibbles, and a scene of a sick mouse in bed tended by a seated mouse. A designer might take its soft watercolour palette of ochre, sage and pale blue, and its small anthropomorphic animals drawn with confident ink outlines.
