'The wolf ran as fast as he could, taking the shortest path, and the little girl took a roundabout way, entertaining herself by gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and gathering bouquets of little flowers.'
-Charles Perrault

🎨Graham Franciose

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"Jofuku put into Sentaro's hand a little crane made of paper, telling him to sit on it's back and it would carry him to the country of Perpetual Life. Sentaro obeyed wonderingly. The crane grew large enough for him to ride on it with comfort. It then spread...

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'I'd been in a place where animals can talk and where there are - er - enchantments and dragons - and well, all the sorts of things you have in fairy-tales.' ... The Silver Chair.

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Some people think that there are no fairies. But it is a wide world, and plenty of room in it for fairies, without people seeing them; unless, of course, they look in the right place.
–Charles Kingsley, The Water-Babies.

🎨Warwick Goble.

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“Their breath added mist to mist... Behind them, in the crawling fog, came a soft gentle sound. Something rustled, pushing towards them.”
- The Giant Under The Snow - John Gordon

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Remedy Teaser
One needed only to reveal themselves as a messenger from the Gods to invoke adoration and unquestioning loyalty.
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The Dream Walker
The silence of the street seemed to close in around him whilst his own thoughts were riddled with disquiet.
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Remedy Teaser
One needed only to reveal themselves as a messenger from the Gods to invoke adoration and unquestioning loyalty.
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"Merry, merry England has kissed the lips of June:
All the wings of fairyland were here beneath the moon,
Like a flight of rose-leaves fluttering in a mist
Of opal and ruby and pearl and amethyst."

- Alfred Noyes
🎨 Warwick Goble

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"Young adult and children's books featuring anthropomorphic animals. Publisher of fine furry literature since 2020."

Bookworms, this may be the table for you! 📔

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“Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
You moonshine revellers, and shades of night,
You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
Attend your office and your quality.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V, Scene 5
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Posting my edits 'till the hiatus ends. Day 22: Possible plothole, Amity says bookworms are man-eating creatures and Luz explains to her that, in the human realm, that's just a nickname for nerds. So why does Flora use that word with the human meaning?
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“All this took place before summertime came in.
[…] Some, I think, [come] out of the water, and some out of the ground. […]
I certainly prefer the daylight population of the Playings Fields to that which comes there after dark.”

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The stories in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser take the reader into a world of adventure-seeking knights, fairies, captive maidens, treacherous magicians, fire-breathing dragons, enchanted trees and other wonders. https://t.co/onrBvVnajS

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‘O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.’ The Stolen Child, Yeats. 🖼 Rackham

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'Oh, how near to Fairyland!
Blow, blow, gust of wind!
Sweep away my soul-boat against that very shore!'
-Yone Noguchi

is with you for the first half of a that is all about Fairies in Literature.

🎨Asako Eguchi

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"Robert Kirk believed the fairies to be the doubles or, as he called them, the 'co-walkers' of men, which accompanied them through life, and thought that this co-walker returned to Faerie when the person died" ~ Lewis Spence




🎨 Arthur Rackham

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“Mirrors only show us what we are. Books show us what we can be.”

― Jennifer Donnelly, Beauty and the Beast: Lost in a Book

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Remedy Teaser
One needed only to reveal themselves as a messenger from the Gods to invoke adoration and unquestioning loyalty.
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