Katherine Langrishさんのイラストまとめ

The Grimms' tale Fundevogel is a children's novel in miniature: a little girl rescues her beloved foster brother from a wicked cook: they escape into the woods and she uses magic to save them... The lovely illustration is by Mercer Mayer. https://t.co/mzovFkXuE6 #FairyTaleTuesday

Has anyone ever come across an artist and illustrator, probably from the 1950s (?) named Rhoda Hinks? I came across a portfolio of her paintings in a second-hand shop some years ago and bought a few & I've always wanted to know more about her. @mrjamesmayhew? Here's one!

In her 'Bestiary', Pauline Baynes tells that a a hunter who stole a tiger cub could distract its mother from pursuing him by casting a glass ball behind him. Mistaking her own reflection for her cub, the tigress would curl around the ball and nurse it. #FolkloreThursday

For three nights, as the white birds in the hazel tree shower down upon her their transformative gold and silver, Cinderella stage-manages the whole affair... https://t.co/G1N38pifbI

Today's heroine, the Mastermaid, may be the cleverest & most disruptive in fairyland (see the bit near the end where she takes various men to bed, only to make them stand up all night unable to let go of suggestive items like pokers...) https://t.co/CSUxFMFtZr #FairyTaleTuesday

For #FolkloreThursday a post about children's rhyming games and their love of rhyme and rhythm: Clapping to Poetry! https://t.co/sfrnuCuisN

In this gender-bending fairy tale from Romania, a princess rescues a princess, with many adventures along the way! https://t.co/gg0LyTM56d #fairytaleheroines

Old post, but a good one for tonight: The Wild Hunt Rides Over Paris https://t.co/c19nTTeO6k #FolkloreThursday

Round-up of mermaidy books for #FolkloreThursday https://t.co/yXmKAO5pvY

'Colours in Fairytales', an essay which ended up in my book "Seven Miles of Steel Thistles" - 'Fairytales contain their own colours, brilliant as any medieval painting. As red as blood, as black as ebony, as white as snow.' https://t.co/yepxkHV0zD @FolkloreThurs #FolkloreThursday