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thefugitivesaint · 6 months

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Heorhiĭ Ivanovych Narbut (1886-1920), ''Soloveĭ: Skazka Andersena'' (The Nightingale: A Fairy Tale by Hans Christian Andersen), 1912 Source

#Heorhiĭ Ivanovych Narbut #Heorhiy Narbut #George Narbut #ukrainian artists #the nightingale #hans christian andersen #fairy tales #children's stories #vintage illustration #silhouette art

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themousefromfantasyland · 2 months

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I propose the existence of a genre of film: the Storybook Movie.

What's the Storybook Movie?

The Storybook Movie is a light-hearted musical fantasy adapted from or just inspired by fairy tales and children's stories in general.

So, basically the first thing you automatically think about when you hear the words "Disney film"

So, why not just use the term Disney film?

Because just being made by Disney doesn't make the film fit in with these story structures.

For example, Wreck-it-Ralph, Meet the Robinsons, and Zootopia are Disney films, but they aren't exactly what you expect from a Disney movie.

And Anastasia, Over the Moon, and several of the direct-to-video Barbie movies technically fit in with the rules I laid out about the genre.

Technically, the Wizard of Oz was the biggest example of a Storybook Movie made outside of Disney. It was made specifically because of the success of Disney's Snow White, and it's a light hearted musical adaptation of the L. Frank Baum's story.

So, why not just use the term "Fairy Tale Movie"?

Because although many Storybook movies technically are Fairy Tales movies, not all fairy tale movies are Storybook movies.

The Wizard of Oz is not a fairy tale film, but it's in the genre. And so it is Willy Wonka.

I consider Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as a Storybook Movie. It shares tone, themes, story structure, and tropes with the Wizard of Oz and several Disney movies.

Now compare Cocteau's La Belle et la Bete with Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Both are movies adapted from fairy tales. Both are inspired by the same exact fairy tale. But noticed how they diverge in how they tell the story. How one is much more light-hearted, whimsical, and uses music to tell its story.

This is the Storybook Movie, and honestly, I wish we had more good films made outside of Disney since it's one of my favorite genres of films.

#fantasy #musical fantasy #musicals #fairy tales #children's stories

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lepetitdragonvert · 1 year

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The Journey of Mourning Cloak

Early 20th century

Artist : Ernst Kreidolf (1863-1956)

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itsmenotye · 1 year

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#anthropomorphic #maurice sendak #little bear #vintage illustrator #children's stories #anthropomorphic vintage #bear

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bardicious · 5 months

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Little Red Riding Hood

#Bardicious Makes Art #my art #my illustrations #artists on tumblr #tumblr artist #Bardicious Sketchbook #sketchbook #digital sketchbook #red riding hood #little red #fairy tales #fables #little red riding hood and the big bad wolf #children's stories #illustration #digital ink drawings #line art #fantasy #magic

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envyclearlace · 1 year

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you'll learn to not be afraid of your own darkness

#mental health #dark academia #literature #poetry #my thoughts #aesthetic #romantic academia #dark cottagecore #light academia #classic academia #winnie the pooh #aa milne #children's stories

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annelisreadingroom · 1 month

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Reading is a good hobby. Do you think representation is important in children's books? Did you see yourself in books when you were young? I'm from Finland and I'm white, so I never failed to find books with characters that looked like me.

#books #booklr #bookblogger #book photography #children's books #representation matters #children's stories #everybody reads #winnie the pooh #picture books #readers of tumblr

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intothestacks · 11 months

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Adventures in Librarian-ing

Today I read Same, Same But Different to a class of Kindergarteners (a story about two pen pals, one from the US and one from India, and how their lives look different, but are actually quite similar)

A few pages in when there was a drawing of a rickshaw a little Indian girl who had just returned from visiting family abroad gasped and went "Is that in India?! :D". I told her it was, and she was absolutely thrilled.

Every time I turned to a page about the Indian boy's life she'd ask if it was in India ("Are those peacocks in India? Is that India writing? Is he sleeping on a bed in India?").

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princesssarisa · 17 days

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Do you have any favorite Jewish stories from your childhood?

Oh yes.

One picture book I loved was The Chanukah Guest by Eric A. Kimmel, which was later republished as Hanukkah Bear with slightly abridged text and new illustrations. It's a funny Hanukkah story where a bear wanders into a shtetl and up to an old grandmother's house, and because she's nearly blind and deaf from age, she mistakes him for the rabbi and shares what she thinks is a pleasant evening of dreidel and latkes with him. Though I suppose in hindsight, it could be viewed as ageist and ableist.

Then there are two books, both based on the same folktale: Something From Nothing by Phoebe Gilman and Joseph Had a Little Overcoat by Simms Taback. The main character (a little boy in the former book, a man in the latter) has a fabric item (a baby blanket in the one book, an overcoat in the other) that becomes old and worn out, and is recycled into a jacket, a vest, a scarf, a necktie, a handkerchief, and a button, in that order; then the button gets lost, so the boy/man "turns it into a story." I grew up with them both and liked them both, though Something From Nothing is a prettier and more sentimental version of the story, while Joseph Had a Little Overcoat is lighter and more comic.

If contemporary stories count, not just folktales, then a favorite is Mrs. Katz and Tush by Patricia Polacco. It's about an African-American boy, Larnel, who bonds with an elderly Polish Jewish woman after he gives her a pet kitten and helps her take care of it. In the process, he learns about her culture and all that the Jewish people have in common with his own people. The ending might upset some sensitive kids, since Mrs. Katz dies – not within the main storyline, but a very brief epilogue set many years later has an adult Larnel saying the Mourner's Kaddish at her grave – but it never bothered me.

Of course there are more Jewish children's books now than there were when I was little, and I've discovered a few that I wish I had back then. Any Jewish-themed book by Eric A. Kimmel is good. So is Raisel's Riddle by Erica Silverman, a shtetl Cinderella variant set around Purim with an intellectual heroine, and Bone Button Borscht by Aubrey Davis, a shtetl retelling of Stone Soup full of sarcastic humor.

#judaism #jewish children's books #picture books #children's books #children's literature #children's stories

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peculiary · 6 months

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Saga #16

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kursed-arcana · 1 year

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#coraline #neil gaiman #quotes #literature quotes #books #literature #lol #humor #beldam #the beldam #the other mother #horror #children's stories #quote #life quote #gravestone #grave

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thefugitivesaint · 1 year

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Katharine Pyle (1863-1938), ''Tales of Wonder and Magic'', 1920 Source

#katharine pyle #american artists #Tales of Wonder and Magic #lamia #jogi #fairy tales #children's stories #vintage art #vintage illustration

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wethergirl · 1 month

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Anna McCaskill is a plucky little girl who lives on a friendly little island. She greets her old friends, makes some new ones, and learns that "home" is never very far away!

#glenhillgeneralstore #cottagecore #vintage aesthetic #cottagestyle #naturecore #artists on etsy #nature aesthetic #cottage aesthetic #children's books #children's stories #picture books

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disneybooklist · 1 month

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Mary Poppins (1964)

Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers (1934)

#Mary Poppins #Disney #Book #Movie #1964 #1934 #P. L. Travers #Children's stories #Pamela Travers #Julie Andrews #Dick van dyck

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delmaro-learning · 1 month

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#delmaro #delmaro learning #delmaro learning tips #reading time #reading habits #teach #children's books #children's stories

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crowpocrypha · 2 years

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A couple of the Rogues: but I've assumed your childhood story (or stories) of choice based on them alone

Scarecrow: Sleepy Hollow (self-explanatory), The Little Match Girl, or something The Brother’s Grimm.

Mad Hatter: Alice in Wonderland (self-explanatory) and/or The Little Prince

Riddler: The Little Prince as well, or, it's one of Aesops Fables (except the crow and the pitcher, that's scarecrow territory)

Joker: a miscellaneous funny book, The Gingerbread Man and/or some kind of Dr. Seuss

Poison Ivy: The Giving Tree.

Harley Quinn: Alice in Wonderland, something Dr. Seuss, Goldilocks, The Wizard of Oz, or Beauty and the Beast

Croc(beloved): Oliver Twist, The ugly duckling, and/or the Reluctant Dragon

Two-Face: The Ugly Duckling, little Red Riding Hood, other "Big Bad Wolf" stories.

Freeze: The Secret Garden, Rapunzel

These few came to me relatively quickly: but others were-- more difficult.

*whispers* I think you should reblog this with your favorite rogue and childhood story (I wanna hear them)

For me: Scarecrow and the Legend of Sleepy Hollow (unsurprisingly)

#for fun #poison ivy #scarecrow #dc rogues #riddler #mad hatter #Joker #killer croc #Two-Face #mr. freeze #children's stories

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