These are some of my favorite images from Stopping Off Place, the visual scrapbook of artist Michael Dumontier. I previously featured my favorite black-and-white images. Here's what I said in that post:

Based in Winnipeg, Michael daily features scans from his personal collection of books, records, and ephemera. He rescues stacks of discards from library sales and preserves the best parts for us. Because he's raising kids, many of the books are craft idea tomes, teaching guides, and vintage children's books. He also has an impressive collection of books on Inuit art and titles from Something Else Press. Remy Charlip is the blog's patron saint.

If you scroll too quickly you might find yourself confusing the masterpieces of ten-year-old Canadian girls with the work of Jean Dubuffet and Emmett Williams. It's impossible not to feel continually surprised.

Manspace by Alec Allinson, Beverly Allinson, and John McInnes, 1973
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From Aux tout-petits qui vivent avec Dieu (Collection ecole de Catechistes d'Ottawa, 1966)
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From Aux tout-petits qui vivent avec Dieu (Collection ecole de Catechistes d'Ottawa, 1966)
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From Aux tout-petits qui vivent avec Dieu (Collection ecole de Catechistes d'Ottawa, 1966)
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"Mount Herubreid, The Queen of the Highlands" by Ísleifur Konráðsson, 1961
from Naive and Fantastic Art in Iceland
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From Iela Mari: The World Through a Lens
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From Il giocco delle favole (The fable game) by Enzo Mari
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from Ant and Bee and the ABC by Angela Banner, illus. Bryan Ward
(1966, the first Ant and Bee book)
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From Heinrich Anton Müller 1869-1930.
Katalog der Maschinen, Zeichnungen und Schriften by Roman Kurzmeyer
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From The Picture Tells the Story: The Drawings of Joseph E. Yoakum
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illustration detail from Crictor by Tomi Ungerer, 1958
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Pudlo Pudlat, Cape Dorset artist, 1916–92
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From The Paper Snake by Ray Johnson, Something Else Press, 1965
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How Does it Feel to be a Tree? by Flo Morse, illustrated by Clyde Watson, 1976
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Illustration by Robert Strobridge, mid-60s
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from Howard Finster: Man of Visions, 1989
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from James F. Miles: Is A Boyfriend And A Girlfriend
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Peter Fischli cover art for Kleenex single, 1979
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The True Believer cover by Tomi Ungerer
Time Reading Program, 1963
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Minibeasts cover, c. 1972
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from The Young Readers Press First Dictionary, illustrated by John Seares Riley, 1967
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Carole, age 10
From Dear World, ed. Richard and Helen Exley, 1978
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Lion by William Pene Du Bois, 1956
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From Sigmar Polke: The Early Drawings 1963-1969 by Johannes Gachnang
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Gaston Chaissac (France, 1910–64)
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by Baker Lake artist Marion Tuu'luq
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1973 wall hanging by Jessie Oonark
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Parsnips Snips album cover by Michael Hurley
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From Visions of the Heavenly Sphere: A Study in Shaker Religious Art
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Cover detail from The Antediluvian, Or Serpentine Musings by A Descendant Of Noah, 1874
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from Arm in Arm (A Collection of Connections, Endless Tales,
Reiterations, and other Echolalia) by Remy Charlip, 1969
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