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CHILDREN in
with HANSEL & GRETEL
Which tempting gingerbread house would you pick to eat from?
🎨Curt Liebich
🎨Karl Feiertag

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CHILDREN in
w/Jack and the Beanstalk

🎨Warwick Goble
🎨Elizabeth Colborne

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Rapunzel is named for the vegetable growing in the Witch's garden which her mother so covets. These Gordon Laite illustrations show the witch as a pipe-smoking, red-eyed fiend with her cat familiar, and even show the radish roots of the rapunzel

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Fearing capture
Lina turned to Fundevogel and said, “I will never leave you if you will never leave me!” Fundevogel replied, “I will never leave you!”
Lina said, “Become a rose tree, and I will become the rose upon it!”
https://t.co/3oMgpbtg5t

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📚📚📚 Timeless Stories- Classic Illustrations 🦋🌼🌷⚘️🏵🦋

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“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.” ~ G.K. Chesterton

Art: “Dragon Slayer” Michael Bay

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Illustrations by Dorothy Lanthrop
for A Little Boy Lost

Link to book:
https://t.co/cmdVEn405Z

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Lisbeth Zwerger specialises in fairy tale illustrations, her style inspired by Golden Age illustrators, particularly Arthur Rackham as her lovely use of colour and movement attest.

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The adventures of Hans Christian Andersen's "Thumbelina" as illustrated by Austrian artist Lisbeth Zwerger (b. 1954).

(1/2)

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"Oh, little did the Wolf-Child care
When first he planned his home
What City should arise and bear
The weight and state of Rome"
Rudyard Kipling
Remus and Romulus
Art by Peter Paul Rubens

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In a Flemish tale a man steals a hat. The hat shapeshifted into a screaming, grinning skull. He was advised to bring the skull back with a newborn. A woman appeared and said that if it wasn't for the child she would have broken his neck and flown him to hell.

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The Scottish folktale heroine Molly Whuppie is the youngest of three sisters taken hostage by a giant. She tricks the giant into killing his own daughters instead of her & her sisters. After they escape, she returns to steal a sword, a purse, & a ring.

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Ka-poe-kino-maani (all winds) is a classification for wind kupua or spirits.

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A Blossom of Fairy Folk for the Fairytale Club..🦋🌼🌷🌿💐🦋🌺🌻

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2022-08-24



In anthills and on mountain tops,
Underwater, underground!
In forests, caves, up in the sky:
That’s where our spirits can be found!
Up and down and all around,
That’s where our spirits can be found!

🎨: Mino Yasue

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In Ireland, the Fairy Market was sometimes called The Fair of the Dead and held at Samhain. At times the dead held the market, at other times, the fairies, and they were often confused as one and the same...

🎨Josh Honeyman

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🍀💚🍀Folklore says that if you carry a four leaf clover you will see Faeries.

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Deep in forest dark
Hidden secrets lark
Come cross a fairy ring
Magic beyond things unseen

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"The Magic Brocade" is a Chinese tale about a man who travels across lands of ice and fire to the fairy world to regain his mother's handiwork. (Source: Folk and Fairy Tales of Far-Off Lands by Eric & Nancy Protter)

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