fairy tales

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    Illustrations from Rose Fyleman’s The Rainbow Cat (1923)

    The Rainbow Cat is a children’s fantasy book written by British author Rose Fyleman, published originally in 1922. This edition was published by the George H. Doran company in New York in 1923. The art in this book was by American artist Thelma Cudlipp (listed as Thelma Cudlipp Grosvenor on the book itself). I like the balance of clear lines and delicate colors, and especially how cute the cats are! These images were collected from a PDF scan provided by the Library of Congress. They aren’t the clearest, unfortunately, but I thought they were very charming and I wanted to…

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    3 Fairy Poems by Rose Fyleman

    These poems come from the book The Fairy Flute by Rose Fyleman, originally published in 1921. It’s a collection of children’s poems about fairies; I picked these three specifically to share because I like the interaction between the real world and the fantasy world the fairies come from. The featured post image is “The Fairy Queen takes an airy drive in a light carriage, a twelve-in-hand, drawn by thoroughbred butterflies,” from the book In fairy-land (1875). 👉 All posts about fairy tales / All children’s stuff posts / More poetry / More literature IN BOND STREET Upon her little velvet…

  • The Langs’ Colored Fairy Books Index

    The Fairy Books are 25 volumes of collected fairy tale stories from around the world, translated and compiled by Leonora Blanche Lang and edited by her husband, Andrew Lang, in the late 1800s to early 1910s. You can read more about the history of the books and their creation on Wikipedia! This post is specifically an index for the books in the “Colored Fairy Books” collection, which is 12 volumes. I’ve also put together an index of the contents of each of the Colored Fairy Books, so you can CTRL-F to find a specific story and see which volume it’s…