Well, it’s been a while since I posted a status of things update, hasn’t it? We’re fastly approaching two years of this shit, so yay to that. Meanwhile, I got vaccinated (Pfeizer), doubled (Pfeizer again) and boosted (Moderna). As it happened with a lot of people I know, I woke up from the booster feeling […]
Well, it seemed bad not to feature anything from the classic folk tales collected by the Brothers Grimm, so here it is. It’s another classic and, as a matter of fact, something that will sound familiar: “The Elves and the Shoemaker”. In truth, Die Wichtelmänner is a set of fairy-tales with one recurring theme: a […]
Thanks to this blog post, I found you a couple more tales to go for this winter. The first one features in Alexander Afanasyef’s collected Russian tales and is called Morozko, or Father Frost. It’s a classic trope, also found in tales about Frau Holle: a personified winter meets two characters and either punishes them […]
Questo è il 51° post del mercoledì, in un anno con 52 mercoledì (ma il primo mercoledì era il 6 gennaio ed ero impegnata a consegnare il carbone ai bambini cattivi). Di seguito trovate l’elenco completo delle pillole, a partire dalla più recente. Come sempre, saranno pubblicate in un quaderno insieme al resto degli articoli […]
Ursula Moray Williams is the author of over 70 children’s novels. Among them, one called Gobbolino, The Witch’s Cat is particularly well known and was published in 1942 with a charming set of illustrations drawn by Williams herself. There have been other editions, including a 70th-anniversary edition, with illustrations by Catherine Rayner. Gobbolino is a […]
This story is a brand new one for the Story Teller magazine project, written by Wendy Eyton, illustrated by Lyn Duncombe, and originally read by Eve Karpf. It’s the story of a mouse falling from the claws of an owl unto a bag of seeds, and then from the branch to the snow when he […]
You enjoyed the issue about the Snow Bear, so I thought I could bring you a couple more tales from the Story Teller magazine project. As it happens for the previous one, I don’t know where this one is taken from: it’s called Yushkin the Watchmaker and the illustrations are by Francis Phillips. In Italian […]
For Christmas Day, I have picked a Norse tale I didn’t get around to doing when I did my East of the Sun West of the Moon series: it’s called “The Cat on the Dovrefjell” and it takes place on Christmas eve. And it has a bear. What more do you need? You can read […]
Yeah, I had to. As you know from my abusing poor Hans Christian Andersen, I’m not very fond of moralistic authors and this applies to Dickens as well, but A Christmas Carol is a delightful Victorian ghost story and there are some beautiful illustrations by Arthur Rackham I haven’t yet been able to show you, […]
Well, today I’ve got a treat for you. Or, at least, I’ve got a problem maybe you’ll help me fix. When I was a child, back in the days, at the newspaper kiosk you could find a couple of magazines with fairy stories in it. The publications included a leaflet, with the text of the […]