The Fables of Bidpai, or Panchatantra, have traveled the world morphing into Kalila wa Dimna, Aesop's Fables, and La Fontaine's verses along the way🐘✨
🎨from a 15c Arabic Kalila wa Dimna #FairyTaleTuesday
A fable from the Sindbadnameh, on judgement and wisdom✨
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'The Fox Kuzunoha and the Abe Baby' from the series 'Ogura Imitations of One Hundred Poems by One Hundred Poets' - Utagawa Hiroshige, 1845-48 (detail).
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Mother Goose is an imaginary author of popular nursery rhymes and fairytales. She is generally depicted as an elderly woman or as a bonnet-donning goose, who enjoys telling stories to children.
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It's my birthday AND it's #FairyTaleTuesday ! ✨ The theme is fairytale creatures, so here are some of my goblins, a mermaid, and a tiny dragon
The three little kittens, they lost their mittens,
And they began to cry
'Oh, mother dear, we sadly fear,
That we have lost our mittens
🐈⬛One of my fave nursery rhymes that always had the cutest illustrations & taught me not to lose my mittens🐈⬛
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'Girl, beware! There's but a half-ruined manor that way, where a weird old woman, the Witch, lives.'
'And what's so scary and dangerous about my great-aunt?' she amusedly replied.
🎨J.A. Grimshaw
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Lion, Fox & Ass went hunting together. The Ass divided the spoils into 3 identical piles, so the Lion ate him, then asked the Fox to divide the food again. The Fox gave the Lion nearly all of the food & took a tiny portion. -Aesop, talking about politics #FairyTaleTuesday
'The Turnip' is a popular Ukrainian folktale, well known to all Slavic children. It tells a story of a family who met the challenge: they rose up a giant turnip in their garden and need to pick it up! 🧵
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Der Struwwelpeter ('shock-headed Peter') is an 1845 German children's book written and illustrated by Heinrich Hoffmann. It comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. 🧵
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“Wynken, Blynken and Nod one night
Sailed off in a wooden shoe -
Sailed on a river of crystal light
Into a sea of dew...”
A C19th bedtime poem by Eugene Field. #Illustration by Margaret Tarrant for Verses for Children, 1918. #moon #night #art #FairyTaleTuesday
After receiving what he had asked for, the cat gallantly pulled on the boots and slung the bag about his neck.
Puss In Boots
Charles Perrault
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art: Vintage illustration
This nursery rhyme was clearly written by a cat owner:
'Pussy-cat ate the dumplings, the dumplings,
Pussy-cat ate the dumplings.
Mamma stood by, and cried, 'Oh, fie!
Why did you eat the dumplings?''
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🎨: Gems from Mother Goose (1899)
Max and Moritz: A Story of Seven Boyish Pranks (original: Max und Moritz – Eine Bubengeschichte in sieben Streichen) is a German language illustrated story in verse. It was written and illustrated by Wilhelm Busch and published in 1865, 🧵
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