#old book for children
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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
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detroitlib · 1 month 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.
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bixels · 4 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 · 9 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!
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God they were so cute
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mellosdrawings · 1 month 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.
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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 · 5 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
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please no
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webdiggerxxx · 6 months ago
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꧁★꧂
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doverstar · 7 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-
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lepetitdragonvert · 5 months ago
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A New Wonderland by L. Frank Baum
1900
Artist : Frank ver Beck
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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 😭
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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? "
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lacnunga · 2 years ago
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Theres something about big booktoker/booktuber shelves that really heebies my jeebies
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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.
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windsweptinred · 24 days ago
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Morpheus and Daniel, The Sandman by rainesz
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