A Is for Amy Who Fell down the Stairs

We've still got quite a bit of empty wall space to fill in our house, so when I realized this week that I could buy a book of Edward Gorey posters online, I jumped at the chance.

Once I saw that the book included this poster, how on earth could I resist?

This one is from Gorey's best-known work, the Gashlycrumb Tinies (the whole book's available at that link), which "tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely deaths in rhyming ... couplets, accompanied by the author's distinctive black and white illustrations.... Far from illustrating the dramatic and fantastical childhood nightmares, these scenarios instead poke fun at the banal paranoias that come as a part of parenting" (Wikipedia).

But Gorey didn't spend all of his time thinking about all the ways children could die. Here are a few of my other favorites from the book:

Innocence, on the Bicycle of Propriety, carrying the Urn of Reputation safely over the Abyss of Indiscretion

Beware of this and that

Donald imagined things

The book includes thirty 10x14 posters, so we'll have fun deciding which ones to hang and which rooms to put them in.