~Alice in Wonderland

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by Milo Winter 1916 
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Milo Winter (August 7, 1888- 1956)
was a well known book illustrator,
who produced works for editions of
Aesop's Fables, Arabian Nights, Alice in Wonderland,
Gulliver's Travels, Tanglewood Tales (1913) and others.
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“You must know that Solomon had no intention
of remaining in office all his life. He looked forward
to retiring by and by, and devoting his green old age
to a life of pleasure on a certain yew-stump in the
Figs which had taken his fancy, and for years he had
been quietly filling his stocking. It was a stocking
belonging to some bathing person which had been
cast upon the island, and at the time I speak
of it contained a hundred and eighty crumbs,
thirty-four nuts, sixteen crusts, a pen-wiper and
a boot-lace. When his stocking was full, Solomon
calculated that he would be able to retire on a competency.”

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Illustration by Arthur Rackham
for Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

Written by J.M. Barrie

~W. Bouguereau

William-Adolphe Bouguereau
(November 30, 1825 – August 19, 1905)

LINK HERE
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~Alice Newby

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“There stood Will-o’-the-Wisp on a stone before
them, flashing his lantern.”
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by Alice Newby, circa 1920
Found here

~Michael Sowa

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“As the train pulled out of the station,
Esterhazy settled back confidently into the cushions.
He looked out at his parents and countless
relatives all weeping and felt curiously thrilled.
He was sure he would have no trouble finding
a wife in Berlin and living there happily ever after.”

by Michael Sowa
From Esterhazy: The Rabbit Prince

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~Michael Sowa

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“I know I’m rather short,” said Esterhazy,
“But perhaps you’ll marry me anyway.”
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Michael Sowa - Illustration from
Esterhazy: The Rabbit Prince

.Michael Sowa (born 1945) is a German artist
known for his whimsical, surreal and stunning
paintings often featuring animals.
His works are titled in English and German.
He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin
for seven years, spent a brief time as an
art teacher and then became a painter.
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~Poem

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Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune—without the words,
And never stops at all,
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And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
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I’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
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by Emily Dickinson
Painting by Nate Frizzell

~Alfred Stevens

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Alfred Stevens was a Belgian Painter, (1823-1906)

Also known as:  
Alfred Emile Léopold Stevens.
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 The Bath, 1867
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~LINK HERE ~
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~Elena Dudina

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A Talanted graphic artist from Spain
Elena Dudina.
Her beautiful artworks are great combination
of magic fantasy and dark emotions.
~LINK HERE TO SEE MORE ~
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~Einar Norelius

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Einar Norelius, born July 20 1900 in Falun ,
died in Bjursås in Falun Municipality of July 14th 1985 ,
was an illustrator and story writer.
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Einar Norelius illustrated in 53 years the
annually published story collection
Among gnomes and trolls .
Throughout the motives of his fairy-tale character
and he could paint the stumps so that they looked
like trolls and hillocks so that they looked like giants .
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Bibliography:
-Tre knepiga troll Three tricky trolls
-Tre trallande troll Three grating of magic
-Tre tropiska troll Three tropical magic .
-Petter och hans fyra getter (1951)
Petter and his four goats (1951) 
- Snigel Blå (1958) Snail Blue (1958) 
- Trollfars sagor (1963)
-Troll Father's tales (1963),
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Here are a few examples of the genius of
Einar Norelius- the 1934
edition of Bland Tomtar Och Troll.…
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~Gustaf Tenggren

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Gustaf Adolf Tenggren (November 3, 1896 - April 9, 1970)
He was a Swedish-American illustrator.
He is known for his Arthur Rackham-influenced
fairy-tale style and use of silhouetted figures
with caricatured faces. Tenggren was a chief
illustrator for The Walt Disney Company in the late 1930s,
in what has been called the Golden Age of American
animation, when animated feature films such as
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Fantasia,
Bambi and Pinocchio were produced.
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Johanna Spyri
Link
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The next morning the sun came out early as bright
as ever, and then Peter appeared with the goats,
and again the two children climbed up together
to the high meadows, and so it went on day after day
till Heidi, passing her life thus among the grass and
flowers, was burnt brown with the sun, and grew so
strong and healthy that nothing ever ailed her.
She was happy too, and lived from day to day
as free and lighthearted as the little birds that make
their home among the green forest trees.
Then the autumn came, and the wind blew louder
and stronger, and the grandfather would say sometimes,
“To-day you must stay at home, Heidi; a sudden
gust of the wind would blow a little thing like you
over the rocks into the valley below in a moment.”
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From the book; Heidi by Johanna Spyri
Illustrated by Gustaf Tenggren
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