The giant scissors
The Giant Scissors is an American children's story by Annie Fellows Johnston, published in Boston by L.C. Page and Company in 1911. The pencil-and-ink illustrations show a stern housekeeper, a girl in a hat and fur muff, a boy in loose smock and trousers, a seated gentleman in a parlour, and a doorway scene with a spilled jug. Designers can take from them the economical hatching, clear figure silhouettes, and quiet domestic staging typical of early twentieth-century American children's book illustration.
