"All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered."
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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. [embed]https://youtu.be/TWlh80k7DlM[/embed] It's the story of a mouse falling from the claws of an owl unto a bag of seeds, and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
