Hier ist der fröhliche Bildermann
A German children's picture book of 1878 titled Hier ist der fröhliche Bildermann, published by Bagel and built around rhyming verses (Reim) and children's play. Its pages pair small coloured vignettes of children at play, bathing, sledding and tending gardens with short German couplets set beneath each scene. A designer could take its loose, tiled page layouts and bright flat colour blocks, with each small scene framed by its own verse.
