Where the Wild Things Aren't | Slipcovers for your walls

Was Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak one of your favorite children’s books?

Chances are you can still recite your favorite nursery rhyme and vividly recall illustrations associated with it. Nursery rhymes, fairy tales and tales with moral messages are part of childhood. An article in the October/November issue of Cottages & Bungalows explores period imagery designed exclusively for children. A recent exhibit titled “Wall Stories: Children’s Wallpapers and Books”, at the Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum in New York, noted the relationship between decorative wallpapers and storybooks. Covering the period from their origin in the 1870s to the present, the exhibit illustrated how the profound societal and economic changes of the 19^th and early 20^th century effected the development of children’s books and wallpapers. As a result of the Industrial Revolution, families moved into larger homes, and children had their own rooms, which needed decorating. The wallpapers selected were often adaptations of illustrations for children’s books.

Posts on coochicoos and ohdeedoh, sites which focus on children, both feature a child’s room decorated with murals inspired by vintage travel posters and David Wiesner’s illustrations.

As a child, the last images Wiesner saw before going to sleep were the books, rockets, elephant heads, and clocks that decorated the wallpaper in his room. Later, at the Rhode Island School of Design, he further explored his passion for wordless storytelling. He has illustrated more than 20 award winning children’s books.

Since all of us at Casart Coverings are moms, we thought it important to include designs for children and introduced our t3 removable wallpaper designs for tots, tweens and teens this fall. With growth charts, balloons, fireflies, butterflies and splatter, there is something to please every age group.