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lepetitdragonvert · 10 months ago

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Thumbkin and Other Stories

Text Version by W. K. Holmes

Artist : Barbara C. Freeman (1906-1999)

Blackie & Son Limited

London and Glascow

#barbara c. freeman #children's literature #children's illustration #fairy tale #children's books #vintage illustration #fairy story #children's book #fairy tales #old illustration #hans christian andersen #andersen #thumbkin #thumbelina #thumbeline #poucette #poucelina

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detroitlib · 2 months ago

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From our stacks: Illustration from Norse Fairy Tales. Selected & Adapted from the Translations by Sir George Webbe Dasent. With Illustrations by Reginald L. Knowles & Horace J. Knowles. London: George Routledge & Sons Limited. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1910.

#norse fairy tales #horace j. knowles #reginald l. knowles #illustration #book illustration #fairy tales #old books #old children's books #books #book #detroit public library

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bixels · 5 months ago

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I'm not getting into The Giving Tree discourse...

#personal #delete later #idk i just saw a post of the “alternate ending” comic on my dash and everyone praising it as an improvement and “fixing” the original #which i kinda resent #while tulli and i was taking my nephew to a book store we walked around the kids section and found the giving tree and we read through it #and i was so stricken by how profoundly sad it is. it's not a happy story #in the end both versions tell the exact same lesson. but one flat out tells you and the other makes you sit with a pit in your stomach #and work to find the answer #i dunno it's kids literature but kids literature is important. i don't wanna discredit anyone's bad memories with the book but also i think #sometimes it's ok to make kids a bit sad and upset with fiction.#tweet that goes “what if romeo and juliet didn't kill themselves and explained to the audience that family feuds are bad”#idk you can't seriously read the original book as an adult and say it's glorifying self-martyrdom #when the final drawing of the book is of an old tired man sitting on arotting stump with his hat fallen to the ground #again i don't wanna invalidate people's feelings if they enjoy the alt version i think it's really nice too. but the original has its #purpose too. imagine if at the end of the lorax they show that the boy did it and replanted the world happy ending #wait they did that in the movie shit #i dunno i just love somber children's literature. tulli and i are talking about moomin right now and how the series ends with the moomin #family just leaving. and nobody gets to say goodbye to them. their friends have to find ways to live with the emptiness they've left behin

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batcavescolony · 10 months ago

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just saw someone say Rick Riordan making a TV show is just as bad as anything JKR has done. BFFR you're comparing Rick Riordan trying to make his world more inclusive, changing some parts because of money/time constraints, or just making changes cus he thinks they're needed, to JKR being a terrible person!

#and not to say Ricks work is perfect. ill be the firat to tell you his mistakes. his aspec rep is shit. his minorities rep has problems #he has general time line problems. im not says hes perfect but he tried from a good place #jkr named a character ChoChang. her Scottish character blow stuff up and tried to make alcohol. named a black character Shackelbolt #like damn get over yourself.#percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson and the olympians #percy series #pjo series #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjo tv adaptation #if you wanna say shit about Rick ok. but be correct about it #how is he just as bad as jkr for not using the book he made in the early 2000s an exact script for the TV show being released in 2024?#and they yall had the audacity to be pissed when he didn't put a song about sex thats literally says `fuck her face° in the background of #LITERAL 12 YEAR OLDS in a place with memory altering properties..... thats whats you wanted. children getting high to a song about sex.#°oH bUt iN tHe mOvIe tHaT i WaTcHeD wHeN i waS tWeLvE' where the actors where like what 18? and weren't 12? that one? 🙄#some of you are getting on my nerves. yes the show's pacing is eh really thats a reason to curisfy Rick Riordan? thats what you're deciding #this is the line? a tv show thats on its first season and is more accurate then the movies that came out?#good to know

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mellosdrawings · 2 months ago

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I am regularly annoyed at AI generated art, but I think nothing compares to doing researches of traditional clothes and only finding sexualised AI stuff that is most definitely not traditional apparel.

#that's not counting on disney's own shitty influence #try looking for arabian or native clothes and you WILL find far too much children costumes #gonna have to start doing it the good old way:#buy encyclopaedias and history books at the bookshop #mindless rambling #art

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 4 months ago

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The Three Bears as told by Vincent Price on the Red Skelton Hour (1964)

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genericpuff · 6 months ago

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hello 911 why are all the LO volumes classified as grades 6-12 except for the newest volume which is more appropriately categorized as grades 9-12

please no

#and no i'm not trying to be all 'think of the children'#but it also squicks me out to think of the potential of 11-12 year olds learning about sex through the onscreen rape scene in vol 1 #and also minthe verbally abusing hades during sex #esp when these categories are also meant for PARENTS not just kids #the parents are the ones buying the books and being told that these books are appropriate for their kids #like why is the trial arc volume the one that gets the age bump LOL #what about the trial arc is more “mature” than the rest of it lmao #“kids under 12 won't understand courtroom proceedings” ok first of all the courtroom proceedings in LO are completely made up and stupid #but also the trial arc isn't appropriate for kids but all the other shit in LO leading up to it is ??? hello ???#i know i'm probably blowing it way out of proportion but ughgh it's still ick #know your audience jfc #on the flipside it's really funny because it goes to show that anyone older than 18 is probably too old for LO lmaoooo #makes me think of all the ppl who talk about how they liked LO when they were younger and then later realized how gross it is #lore olympus critical #anti lore olympus #lo critical

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webdiggerxxx · 7 months ago

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doverstar · 8 months ago

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was today years old when discovering that the eleventh doctor wears leather trousers. his trousers are made of black leather. Black leather with the ends rolled up and I. have no idea what to think-

#what do you mean he is wearing BLACK LEATHER TROUSERS #all this time I thought it was denim but I just saw his Children In Need short and? they really are? black leather?#exactly like the books and articles describe. he is wearing black leather #ON HIS LEGS #I genuinely thought oh ha! tweed old man jacket with elbow patches. cotton shirt. braces and bow tie. boots. precious man #denim trousers #BUT NO. NO. hear me. listen to me. that sideways old man babyface is wearing black leather trousers. do you know what that makes him?#COOL. do you know what that also makes him? STUPID #he's even more ridiculous than I thought he was. who does that. like the tweed and the bow tie and the elbow patches were all quirky #all eccentric and geek chic and niche and moffat and the costumers really tried to create a very OBVIOUS caricature #but it worked and it came together to look exactly how it was supposed to look okay. but. BUT.#it is all sitting on top of cleverly-disguised. barely-referred-to. blink-twice-and-you'll-miss-them-#black leather trousers. *inhale with me* matt smith in his mid-twenties dressing as a geek chic alien grandfather. IN BLACK LEATHER TROUSER #NEEEERRRRD #eleventh doctor #doctor who #doverstar's thoughts #text post #funny #read the tags #opinion piece #I guess?#eleven #11 #11th doctor #11th #dw #bbc #matt smith #steven moffat

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royaltea000 · 1 year ago

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You guys ever like “I could draw this better” but by the time you finish drawing it you’re like I could draw this better cuz it took so long that you’ve improved even more 😭

#listen I love my designs of the hiccups so I really wanted to do them justice #Hated the quality of the previous ones lol #I’ve been looking through my old art lately like I could do these concepts better lol #thinking about redesigning my ruffcup oc children next #they need better fits #httyd books #httyd fanart #book hiccup #hiccup horrendous haddock i #hiccup horrendous haddock ii #hiccup horrendous haddock iii #FINALLY GAVE HICCUP 2 THE PIRATE COAT I WANTED HIM TO HAVE IN THE ORIGINAL YESSSSS #NOW HE DOESNT LOOK SO PLAIN COMPARED TO THE OTHER TWO #hiccup 1 is perfect his design has no complaints from me #Wish I made room for his hem designs in the redraw tho :(#Damn #guess I’ll just have to redraw them again in the future lo #digital art #my art #artists on tumblr #digital illustration #procreate #digital painting

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lepetitdragonvert · 5 months ago

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A New Wonderland by L. Frank Baum

1900

Artist : Frank ver Beck

#l. frank baum #frank ver beck #1900 #children's literature #fairy tale #children's books #vintage illustration #fairy story #children's book #fairy tales #old illustration #fairy

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ofswordsandpens · 1 year ago

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"so you think that a society that functions around a child military instead of the entire city of literal adults might be indicative that their attitudes and ideals are a bit off ? and that by moving to New Rome Percy is not actually escaping his life as a demigod but instead is just giving himself a whole new set of problems to deal with? "

#the comments and tags on my other posts are making me realize that people dont view New Rome like the nightmare that I do lmao #look I know its because Riordan didn't think it through #but the implications of New Rome are so fucked up #children being branded children DYING #while the adults are just chilling??#listen the best way I can describe it #is it feels as if you took 12 year old annabeth's wide eyed romanticized view of the gods and quests from book 1 #and created an entire society with it #they're not jaded #they're not disillusioned #at least not as an entirety #idk idk just SOMETHING sinister is in the water there #pjo #mine #new rome

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lacnunga · 2 years ago

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Theres something about big booktoker/booktuber shelves that really heebies my jeebies

#its the all new everything #the identical matching hardback covers #of books that every other bookwhatever has #its the long rows of illumicrate botm etc editions #wheres the old favourites? the books so loved through youve sellotaped the covers on #but still refuse to throw away?#wheres the ugly impulse purchase thrift finds that just sounded too intriguing to leave #wheres the mismatched series bc you couldnt wait to read the next book #wheres the hand me downs that you dont like that much but have so much sentimental value #your old childrens books? your textbooks bc you got really into a subject for no reason?#the library book you forgot to return 5 yeads ago and is just yours now oops #yknow. the books that make your shelf look like it belongs to a human #instead of something an ai spat out

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the-modern-typewriter · 3 months ago

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Adult!Villain and Teen!Hero are hilarious, an whole ass adult beefing with a OP high schooler? Comedy

Honestly, doesn't do it for me. (Sorry) I know it's a very common trope and it's totally valid if you or anyone else likes it!

(I don't think I'm drawn to antagonist &/ protagonist dynamics for the comedy in general. It's not what interests me about it. But that's partly also a semantics thing, e.g. 'rivals' versus 'enemies', 'villain' as in 'supervillain' which can mean like megamind versus 'villain of the story'. I can appreciate comedy in a story about rivals, idk, I can't explain the distinction.)

Anyway. Like, to me, this gives:

horror in the power imbalance between children and adults

themes of children/teenagers having to step up to save the world because of the actions or inaction of older generations

themes in the way adults are not taught its unacceptable to have public beef with a teenager + lessened boundaries in how we treat each other in public spaces

themes in the whole creepy child trope, e.g. a teenager who is so powerful and the ways that this can backfire

themes in identity formation and the myriad different masks we might wear as teenagers and how someone can pick up on just one part of who you are growing to be and hate it.

#I'm not trying to get on a moral high horse or anything #I just find so much more horror potential in the way that adults can use their power against teenagers and children over comedy #obviously different from like a children's/ya POV where half the point is empowering young people to face difficult situations #children's books frequently have adult protagonist's more often than other kids #and like power fantasy etc #I probably liked it more when I was a teenager #I'm just old lol #and I have a very particular sense of humour

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windsweptinred · 1 month ago

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Morpheus and Daniel, The Sandman by rainesz

#Heeey #Some art with a Lyta!!#A rare find indeed #the sandman #dream of the endless #morpheus #lyta hall #daniel hall #This looks so much like the art from my old 90s childrens books #It's almoat nostalgic

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ilovemesomevincentprice · 4 months ago

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Red Skelton's new butler, Tom (Vincent Price) may be the "cat burglar"...

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