~For Mette…

Snow Princess and Polar Bear
by Ruth Sanderson

Alice Restroom Graffiti
by Meg Mathews

by.Arthur Rackham
~ The Kensington Gardens are in London 
~ Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
by J. M. Barrie ~ 1906

People who’ve never read fairy tales,
the professor said, have a harder time coping
in life than the people who have.
They don’t have access to all the lessons that can be
learned from the journeys through the dark woods
and the kindness of strangers treated decently,
the knowledge that can be gained from the company
and example of Donkeyskins and cats wearing boots
and steadfast tin soldiers.
I’m not talking about in-your-face lessons,
but more subtle ones.
The kind that seep up from your subconscious and
give you moral and humane structures for your life.
That teach you how to prevail, and trust.
And maybe even love.

by Charles de Lint (The Onion Girl)

     
Alice: How long is forever?
White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second.

by Lewis Carrol 
Art unknown to me

Cries of London
"Hot Spiced Gingerbread, Smoking Hot!"

Source!

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If one cannot enjoy reading a book
over and over again,
there is no use in reading it at all.

- Oscar Wilde

~Books

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“The Swiss Family Robinson” by Johann D. Wyss.
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 One of the world’s best-loved stories of shipwreck
and survival, The Swiss Family Robinson portrays
a family’s struggle to create a new life for themselves
on a strange and fantastic tropical island.
Blown off course by a raging storm,
the family—a Swiss pastor, his wife,
their four young sons, plus two dogs and
a shipload of livestock—
must rely on one another in order to adapt to
their needs the natural wonders of their exotic
new home. Inspired by Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe,
this classic story of invention and adventure has fired
the imaginations of readers since it first appeared in 1812.

SOURCE!!!

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Mary Poppins from A to Z -
written by P.L. Travers,
illustrated by Mary Shepard (1962)
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.. .

~Source~

WISHING YOU ALL A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!
xxx ANNA xxx

 
"The time has come," the Walrus said,
"To talk of many things:
Of shoes - and ships - and sealing wax -
Of cabbages - and kings -
And why the sea is boiling hot -
And whether pigs have wings."

in 'The Walrus and the Carpenter’
Alice in Wonderland

We read to know we are not alone.
Secret of moonacre

~Sunday Quote

It is the mark of a good fairy-story,
of the higher
or more complete kind,
that however wild its events,
however fantastic or terrible the adventures,
it can give to child or man that hears it,
when the “turn” comes,
a catch of the breath,
a beat and lifting of the heart,
near to
(or indeed accompanied by) tears,
as keen as that given
by any form of literary art,
and having a peculiar quality.

by JRR Tolkien

 

“The Hereford Cathedral Chained Library
is an interesting one!
The practice of chaining books was the normal
practice for reference libraries starting in the
Middle Ages until the 18th century.
The Chained Library has been
around since the 1100′s.
MORE INFO HERE!

“What day is it,?" asked Pooh.
"It's today," squeaked Piglet.
"My favorite day," said Pooh.”

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“The book of fairy poetry” (1920) by Dora Owen,
illustrated by Warwick Goble.
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Your library is your portrait
by Holbrook Jackson

Instantly they lay still, all turned into stone.

An Arthur Rackham illustration for
The Two Brothers in Little Brother, Little Sister
Source

   

In fairy tales,
Everything beautiful is golden and strewn
with pearls; there are even golden people living there;
misfortune, by contrast, is a dark power,
a horrid cannibalistic giant who is, however,
vanquished,
since a good woman who knows just how to avert
misfortune stands ready to help.
These narratives always end by opening the prospect
of boundless happiness.
Evil is also neither inconsequential
nor something close to home, and not something
very bad,
to which one could become accustomed,
but something terrible, black, and wholly alien that you
cannot even approach; the punishment
of evil is equally
terrifying: snakes and poisonous reptiles devour their
victims, or the evil person dances to death
in red-hot iron shoes.


by Wilhelm Grimm,
Preface to the first edition of Kinder und Hausmärchen
Art by Caspar David Friedrich

It would be nice if

something made sence for a change.


by Alice

Enjoy your


Wonderful

and

Sunny Weekend ;o)

  "I love everything that is old;
old friends, old times, old manners,
old books, old wines."

Oliver Goldsmith,
The Vicar of Wakefield

The fair maid who, the first of May,
Goes to the fields at break of day…

Arthur Rackham,
from The old nursery rhymes,
New York, 1913.

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I always bring a book with me wherever I go,
even if I know I won’t have a chance to read.
Just knowing the book is in my bag
makes me feel better.

~It’s Sunday ;o)

There once was a young Prince who had so
many and such beautiful books,
that he could find them anything he wished
to know except where the Garden of Paradise was
to be found, and this was just what he wished most
to know. When he was a very little boy,
just beginning to go to school, his grandmother
told him that every flower in the Garden of Paradise
tasted like the sweetest cakes, and that the
stamens were full of the choicest wines.
On one flower there grew history,
on another geography, on a third tables;
so that whoever ate the flower immediately knew
his lesson; the more he ate, the more he learned
of history, geography, or arithmetic.

READ THE WHOLE STORY HERE!

‘The Garden of Paradise’
- Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales
Art by Letizia Picuno

A library is like an island in the middle
of a vast sea of ignorance,
particularly if the library is very tall
and the surrounding area has been flooded.

by Lemony Snicket

--"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice,
"because I'm not myself, you see."
--"I don't see," said the Caterpillar.
--"I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,"
Alice replied very politely,
"for I can't understand it myself top begin with;
and being so many different sizes in
a day is very confusing."
--"It isn't," said the Caterpillar.
(in Alice in Wonderland)

by Stanilaus Soutten Longley
(1894-1966)

~Chris Beatrice

 
www.chrisbeatrice.com 
 

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I love books.
I like that the moment you open one
and sink into it you can escape from the world,
into a story that’s way more
interesting that yours will ever be.

..by Elizabeth Scott

~Quote

    

I’d give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life’s decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.

~Lewis Carroll, “Solitude”
Art by Jessie Willcox Smith

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The fairy poet takes a sheet
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,
His pen a point of light.

~by Joyce Kilmer
Art unknown to me!
Source

READ THE GRIMM STORY HERE!

~Pooh …

1950 - author A.A. Milne's son, Christopher Robin,
sitting at home with his teddy bear.
Image by © Bettmann/CORBIS

All of the Original Pooh Characters Together
At Last in New York City in their permanent home
at The New York Public Library.
These are the very animals Christopher once
played with in Ashdown Forest (inspiration for
the Hundred Acre Wood), patches, rips, dirt,
and all. Some characters, like Rabbit and Owl,
were made up for the stories,
while little Roo was lost long ago.
Read more.

   

Jorinde and Joringel by Daria Azolina
~READ THE STORY HERE~