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Good night, dear magical Twitter folk. Tonight I will leave you with this illustration by Garth Williams from The Tall Book of Make Believe from 1950.
Would we have been friends as children?
(illustration by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite)
I am composed by the books I have read as much as I am by my ancestors' DNA. Both have shaped & formed who I am. Perhaps books even more so because they allowed me to begin to understand myself & the world around me more deeply.
Illustrations for "The Little Mermaid" by Nadezhda Illarionova
Fairy tales are as dark and twisted as the traumas we endure. They have power because they not only show the wounds we suffer but, more importantly, how we can ultimately overcome them. Happily ever afters are always hard-won.
(illustration by Nadezhda Illarionova)