Barnebogen
Barnebogen is a Norwegian-language primer by Olav Refsdal, published in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1898 by the Free Church Book Concern for children learning to read. Its pictures are small, loose pen-and-ink scenes of farm and village life: a boy watching a hen on her eggs beside a barn, a boy holding a bird, two boys reaching into a tree, and a ewe with a lamb. A designer could take from them the simple, sketchy line and the economical way each scene is staged with a few props.
