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by Carl Vilhelm Holsoe
(Danish artist, 1863-1935)

~Sunday Poem!

Breeze in a winter night
Breeze whispers invites
With flurries banter in winter
Drip drops to surface so pure
Snow flakes as sprinkled
From the heavens lure
Glides smoothly from the air
With breeze whispers heard

Whisper and whisper so sharp
To Douglas fir humming like harp
Like music in harmony
As if singing to poets prey

True poets with such creativity
Wind whispers put into words
Note for note lyrics composed
Into winter song accord

A winter song in starry night
Heard so loud and bright
Harmony up in the air
Heard by nature in slumber
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Oh, winter song in starry night
In blue moon delight
Like cantata in harmony
As if orchestra in symphony
To the lovers dream
As moonface smile beams


~ by Ency Bearis
Illustration by Lisa Evans

~Joanna Sierko

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Joanna Sierko Filipowska
was born February 13, 1960  in Bialystok, Poland
LINK  to her Website!
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Amazing Fairy-Tale-Like-Paintings.
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Child of the pure, unclouded brow
And dreaming eyes of wonder!
Though time be fleet and I and thou
Are half a life asunder,
Thy loving smile will surely hail
The love-gift of a fairy tale.

by Lewis Carroll
Illustration by Gustaf Tenggren.
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~Maria Pia Franzoni

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1902 – ?, She was Born in Italy
LINK HERE! for more
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Source
by Elenore Abbott

~Peter Jackson

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by Peter Jackson (1922 – 2003, English)
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~Clever Hans

J. Lawson, Clever Hans, 1880
READ THE STORY HERE
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Ludmila Jiřincová, illustration from Swan Lake, 1970
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Swan Lake is a ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,

composed 1875–1876.
The scenario, initially in four acts,
by Vladimir Begichev and Vasiliy Geltser
was fashioned from Russian folk tales.
It tells the story of Odette, a princess turned
into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse.

~Winter

 

I Wish you all a Happy


and a Magical New Year!
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 Richard Scarry, I am a Bunny (1963)
. Renata Liwska, Holiday surprise
Renata Liwska's Blog
and WEBSITE
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~Kim Min Ji

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FOUND HERE!
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~Evan Wilson

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Evan Wilson was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama,
in 1953. He showed interest in art at an early age
when University of Alabama art professor and
family friend Richard Brough provided him with
painting materials and inspiration.
In 1971, Wilson enrolled in the prestigious
North Carolina School of the Arts to complete
high school. There he experimented with various
styles of art. After high school, Wilson attended the
Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore
where he met his lifelong mentor, Joseph Sheppard,
an internationally known realist painter.
Under Sheppard’s training, Wilson began his
evolution as a realist painter.
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LINK
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by Tony Ross
'The ogre didn't have many visitors on account
of his bad temper, and he blinked at the cat
in yellow boots peeping through his door'

Illustration for 'Puss in Boots, the Story of a Sneaky Cat',
by Tony Ross (London: Andersen Press, 1981)

~Henry Ryland

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by Henry Ryland 1856 - 1924, English

~Christmas

 
Art by Sandra Dieckmann
Source
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Wishing you All a 

Wonderful Christmas

~A Very very Special Day…

by Frances Ullmann DeArmand ~ Tom Vroman 1963

It is My Birthday Today!

~The Snow Man

It is so delightfully cold, said the Snow Man,
that it makes my whole body crackle.
This is just the kind of wind to
blow life into one.
How that great red thing up there is staring at me!
He meant the sun, who was just setting.
It shall not make me wink.
I shall manage to keep the pieces.
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He had two triangular pieces of tile in his head,
instead of eyes, his mouth was made of
an old broken rake, and was, of course,
furnished with teeth.
He had been brought into existence amidst
the joyous shouts of boys,
the jingling of sleigh-bells, and the
slashing of whips. The sun went down,
and the full
moon rose, large, round, and clear,
shining in the deep blue. 
  
There it comes again, from the other side,
said the Snow Man, who supposed the sun was
showing himself once more.
Ah, I have cured him
of staring, though, now he may hang up there,
and shine, that I may see myself.
If I only knew how to
manage to move away from this place,
I should so like to move.
If I could, I would slide along
yonder on the ice, as I have seen the boys do,
but I don't understand how,
I don't even know how to run.
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Read the whole story HERE!
Told By Hans Christian Anderson
Art by Raymond Briggs!

~Peter Spier

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by Peter Spier ~ 1982
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~Alice

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a McKay's Colored Classic version
of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
and Through the Looking-Glass and
What Alice Found There." 
published in the early 1900s
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Found Here!
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