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Cautionary tale

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2021-07-12

“He felt like he was the irresponsible emperor in a cautionary tale. Hearing this calamitous demon’s rare laugh, even the total ruin of his country meant nothing, never mind a sleeve torn up by a cat.”

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2021-07-11

Looking for some uplifting weekend reading? Here I wade into gore, violence and general badness in picture books and cautionary tales for this week's post on
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2021-07-10

Followers finally hit that spooky number of the beast this morning 😤

So like, only natural I do my part, and share a cautionary tale of what happens when you’re facing the wrong way while summoning a Chiru demoness… 🍑😈

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2021-07-08

Noir murder mystery meets cautionary fantasy in this 37-page one-shot, a comic inspired by Hellboy and The Twilight Zone.

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2021-07-06

Get yourself a bun and a nice cup of tea and settle down with this post on gore, violence and badness in picture books and cautionary tales: https://t.co/NuSeV2bWPr

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2021-07-06

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED: I'm wading into gore, violence and badness in picture books and cautionary tales for this week's post on .
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2021-07-05

WARNING: Mini Grey explores gore, violence and badness in picture books and cautionary tales for this weeks picture book den blog.
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2021-07-05

hyuuuu.
("Oh, well....he...created, them, nnnot me. i'm no, scientist.")

[ she adds, nonchalantly. but the sudden, intimate touch miffs her and she grumbles at it. ]

mmgrgh--!
[ his fingertip gets a tiny, harmless, but cautionary shock ]

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2021-07-04

It's been a long time, but I think the friendlier version I saw was an animated cartoon, probably by Disney. 🤔

I love Aesop's Fables and cautionary tales! I refer to "sour grapes" so much in these modern times, before the term became "being salty".

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2021-06-23

🩹Band Aids: shows the precautionary mindset we create.

📚Books on floor: represents the past.

♟️Chess board: the position on chess board shows the 4 dif stages of a famous French Defense trap.

👩Lady: changes autonomously according to the time of day.

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2021-06-23

In “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving (1783–1859), Van Winkle drinks liquor with some peculiar men playing nine pins in the Catskill mountains & wakes up 20 years later- echoing cautionary tales of humans who eat or drink in Faery.
🎨 N.C.Wyeth (1882–1945)

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2021-06-22

After valentine convinces him, Johnny believes that valentine is walking a better path than his own. However Johnny then makes 1 last cautionary move. He gives valentine a gun as a final test to see if he is truly lying or not. If he doesn't shoot Johnny will save him -

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2021-06-15

Today 's 'Untitled Ape's Epic Adventure' is 25% off!
"Very much reminiscent of such left of centre minds as Burton and Gilliam, it covers the gamut of heartwarming fable to cautionary tale." - The Pullbox
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2021-06-15

Librarian recommends: Hold That Thought Milton By Linda Ravin Lodding. Everyone is busy on the day before Aunt Lulus wedding and doesn’t have time to listen to Milton’s worries. A cautionary tale about making time to listen.

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2021-05-20

Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) includes the darkly amusing rhyme “Mathilda Who Told Lies and Was Burned to Death” which has a similar theme to Aesop’s fable “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” (1/2)

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2021-05-13

Here's a cautionary transport-themed tale for a Friday morning. Back in the days of stagecoaches a postillion rider drowned at after he fell into the river riding over the bumpy bridge. This statue was placed in his honour, complete with coaching horn

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2021-05-07

Check out some of our books for the littlest of readers and listeners this

Whether you are tight for time or have plenty, STORYTIME has short, medium and long stories AND poems to choose from 📖⏰

Try TEN NASTY LITTLE TOADS for hilarious cautionary tales 🐸

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2021-05-05

OUTSIDE OVER THERE (1981) by Maurice Sendak. The most disturbing children's picture book ever? A cautionary tale of inattentive babysitting & an obvious influence on the Jim Henson film Labyrinth. Beware the ice, ice baby!

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2021-05-03