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"Cinderella" Ukrainian translation by Roman Treschenko and illustrated by Galina Galinskaya in 1974.

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2021-09-14

Zelinda and the Monster, (1885)
(The Italian Beauty and the Beast)
First recorded in Thomas Frederick Crane’s Italian Popular Tales ✨

🎨Anne Anderson, (1935)
💛

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2021-09-08

As the Firefox (Tulikettu) races along, magical sparks ignite where it’s fur touches the snow, creating the Northern Lights. Finnish legend has it that anyone who catches the fox will be wealthy, but this is unlikely for the Firefox is as swift as the wind.

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2021-09-08

Hopeless Maine meets the unicorn tapestries

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2021-09-08

"Little Orphan Mary and the Gnomes" by Maria Konopnicka
🎨 Jan Szancer

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2021-09-08

"Fairy tales of Northern People" illustrated by Kirill Ovchinnikov in 1968.

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2021-09-08

"Fairy tales of Northern People" illustrated by Kirill Ovchinnikov in 1968.

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2021-09-08

Paul Jouve travelled to Egypt and Vietnam to study elephants and other native wildlife. He particularly loved big cats. He also illustrated LA CHASSE DE KAA (1930 ed.) further tales by Rudyard Kipling in the same story world.

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2021-09-08

The salamander was called by the physician Nikander the "soeceress' lizard," and while Pliny gives an accurate description says they can extinguish fire. The properties of salamanders are many until Carl Linnaeus established their scientific description.

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2021-09-08

"The Dragon's Tail," where a brave boy leads his friends on an adventure. Determined to slay the they quest to the caves & come across something round, slimy, & long lying on the path; a dragon's tail! Grabbing it, the dragon takes them for a ride!

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2021-09-08

The bear prince in East of the Sun and West of the Moon is rather more proactive than the Beast in Beauty and the Beast - he goes looking for a girl who can save him, and essentially buys her from her family, rather than moping around his castle waiting!

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2021-09-07

"So Alice set the little creature down, and felt relieved to see it trot away quietly into the wood. “If it had grown up,” she said to herself, “it would have made a dreadfully ugly child: but it makes rather a handsome pig, I think.”

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2021-09-07

The Tortoise and the Hare is an iconic fable about a race between these two swift creatures. The Hare quickly gains the lead getting almost to the end before taking a nap. The Tortoise never stops and slowly passes the sleeping Hare to win the race.

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2021-09-07

'When the boy came through the streets with his little bundles of flowers, the world looked upon him rather harshly...'

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by Laurie Rohner

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2021-09-07

A lion was roused from his slumber by a mouse scurrying over his nose. He lifted his paw to swat her. “Spare me,” squeaked she, “and your mercy shall have its reward.” One day, the lion was snared by a hunter. Up ran the mouse, and nibbled him free. (Aesop)

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2021-09-07

If ever you've been walking in Japan and a sudden sharp pain in your leg sent you reeling to the ground, you've been struck by a smooth criminal: the Sickle Weasels called Kamaitachi move in threes and strike, never fatal but always quick.

🖼: M. Meyer

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2021-09-07

Isn't this great? The salty sea air, the wind blowing in your face. Aaah, the perfect day to be at sea!

The Little Mermaid

🎨Santos

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2021-09-07

A Hare was making fun of the Tortoise one day for being so slow.
"Do you ever get anywhere?" he asked with a mocking laugh.
"Yes," replied the Tortoise, "and I get there sooner than you think. I'll run you a race and prove it."

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2021-09-07