Missouri-born illustrator
Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900–1931)
managed to complete just three books in her short life,
all of them commissioned by the
Penn Publishing Company:
Old French Fairy Tales (1920),
Tanglewood Tales (1921), and
Arabian Nights (1928).

~Sunday Quote

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    "Obsessed by a fairy tale,
we spend our lives searching for a magic door
and a lost kingdom of peace."

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by Eugene O'Neill
Art by Jesse Wilcox Smith

by George Soper (American 1870-1942)
~ From Tales From Shakespeare by Mary Lamb

by Carl Larsson (Swedish, 1853-1919)
~ My Eldest Daughter, Suzanne with Milk and Book

By Becky Kelly

by Arthur Rackham (English, 1867-1939)
~ Frontispiece, A Dish of Apples by Eden

~An Award for My Blog….

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   A Red Rose as a big thank you ;o)

~John Anster Fitzgerald

John Anster Christian Fitzgerald (1819 – 1906)
He was a Victorian era fairy painter and portrait artist.
He was nicknamed "Fairy Fitzgerald"  for his main genre.
READ MORE HERE.

~Sunday Quote!

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I’ve learned that good-byes will always hurts,
pictures will never replace having been there,
memories good and bad will bring tears,
And words never replace feelings!
~Unknown to me
Art by Winslow Pels

~Vintage Books..

“The Doll Who Came Alive” by Enys Tregarthen
(1944 edition)

Nellie Sloggett (29 December 1851,
Padstow, Cornwall, UK– 1923) was an author and folklorist
who wrote under the names Enys Tregarthen
and Nellie Cornwall.

After Tregarthen's death, the writer
Elizabeth Yates edited her extensive unpublished
materials for publication.

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“The person, be it gentleman or lady,
who has not pleasure in a good novel,
must be intolerably stupid.”
~ Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

~Libico Maraja

 

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Libico Maraja (1912-1983)
was one of Italy's top post-War illustrators.
Born in Bellinzona, Svizzera, Maraja studied in
Lugano and began his career working for the Ala studios.
In 1940, he moved to Berlin, where he cooperated with
IMA Film, among others of the animated film 'La Rosa di Bagdad'.
After the war, he became wellknown for his book illustrations
for 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland', 'Pinocchio',
'Peter Pan', and many other classics.
Between 1946 and 1949, he had a brief appearance
in comics, when he made stories like 'La Quercia Maledetta'
('Dottor Faust') and 'Un mondo in un albero' with
Federico Pedrocchi for Topolino (Mondadori).
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VISIT THE WEBSITE
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SOURCE

FOLLOW YOUR
DREAMS!

HAVE A
WHIMSICAL
SUNDAY!

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An earth-star fungus (Geastrum fornicatum):
four fruiting bodies.
Watercolour by R. Baker, 1895. 
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The prince fungus (Agaricus augustus).
Watercolour by R. Baker, 1898
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by Arthur Rackham

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“Original Harrison Fisher illustrated print
from a 1912 issue of The Ladies Home Journal.”

Harrison Fisher was American illustrator (1877-1934).

illustration by
(Marie) Rie Cramer (1887-1977)

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by Beatrix Potter
READ MORE HERE!
and than for english text
scroll down a bit.

by Alice Tait
CLICK HERE TO VISIT HER WEBSITE

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The very first moment I beheld him,
My heart was irrevocably gone.
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byJane Austen
Art by Johanna Harmon

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‘More than once she had been known
to have a teaparty…’
from A Little Princess (1905)
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
illustrator Ethel Franklin Betts (1878-1956)

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by Angusine Macgregor

Early 20th Century

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Illustrated by Charles Robinson

 

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Little Red Riding Hood,
illustration by Carl Offterdinger,
end of 19th Cent.
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"Grandmother, what big arms you have!"
"All the better to hug you with, my dear."

"Grandmother, what big legs you have!"
"All the better to run with, my child."

"Grandmother, what big ears you have!" |
"All the better to hear with, my child."

"Grandmother, what big eyes you have!"
"All the better to see with, my child."

"Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!"
"All the better to eat you up with."

READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE

~Vintage Books..

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The Wizard of Oz. Poster,
"The Tin Man", 1903

~Vintage Books..

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Book cover, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,
written by Lewis Carroll and
illustrated by Charles Robinson,
1907

WISHING YOU A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!!!
XXX

Beatrix Potters art
by Anne Stevenson Hobbs

by Madge Williams

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ca1880 Paul Cesar Helleu (French 1859-1927)
~ Young Lady in White; Indianapolis Museum of Art

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Hairy
from “Where the Wild things are”

Hope you all have a great day!

The Wolfman by Bluefooted

HAVE A MAGICAL WEEKEND!
XXX

~Bed of Books..

SOURCE

SO, I CAN SLEEP TIDE TONIGHT..LOL

Artist unknown to me!
FOUND IT HERE..

Joseph Christian Leyendecker
[American Golden Age Illustrator, 1874-1951]

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Costume design sketch for Rapunzel
by Claire Keane

~Sunday Poem

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The Gardener's Morning

The robin's song at daybreak
Is a clarion call to me.
Get up and get out in the garden,
For the morning hours flee.

I cannot resist the summons,
What earnest gardener could?
For the golden hours of morning
Get into the gardener's blood.

The magic spell is upon me,
I'm glad that I did not wait;
For life's at its best in the morning,
As you pass through the garden gate.

- by Howard Dolf

Art by Walter Palmer

~Quote

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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough
or a book long enough to suit me”

by C.S. Lewis

Photo by Thomas Eakins,
Amelia Van Buren, 1890

“We saw him off, then we all cried.”
by H.C Appleton

by Tabitha Patterson
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