Square octavo. (11)ff. Ten sheets of color illustrations, each one depicting a scene that would be quite familiar to a Jewish child living in Tel Aviv. Shepherding, seafaring, a trip to the zoo, and a Sabbath visit, among other activities both playful and sentimental, are presented before the young reader already matted and ready for them to tack onto a playroom wall. The portfolio doubles as a representative sample of some of a nascent Israel's fine artists of the period, including Shraga Weil, Nachum Gutman, Shmuel Katz, Ester Peretz-Arad, Friedl Stern, and Amram Pratt. Titles and attributions are printed at the versos of the sheets. Lion the Printer was active from the 1940s and into the 1960s, publishing works of Hebrew and Israeli interest during a period when the very identity of Israel, during the post-WWII global shift, was negotiating its place, however problematically, in the Middle East. Here is a rare example of the firm's broad interests and its appeal to a younger market. Mats show mild toning as does publishers' pictorial portfolio. Some rubbing to edges of the latter, else near fine. Unrecorded in OCLC.