"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, 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...
It's not much of a stand-alone tale, more like a Winter Chapter in Michael Ende's Neverending Story, a book lot of people talk about and very few people have actually read. The Chapter in question is Chapter XII, The Old Man of Wandering Mountain, and follows...
Italo Calvino is one of the most beloved Italian writers of the XX Century. He is mostly famous for a group of three fantastic novels (featuring a Viscount who was cut in half and the two halves kept on living, a Baron who decided he...
Do you remember the Italian illustrator and author who went by Tony Wolf? I already showed you some pictures and told you the story of when the Woodland folks, particularly a couple of mice-ladies, came together in order to weave a winter coat for a...
Well, winter doesn't mean cold for all of us and I'm very well aware that there's a lot of people out there who either are in the blooming spring or wish they were. Fear not, for P.L. Travers has a winter tale for you as well:...
Well, there's a second winter episode in the Winnie-the-Pooh books and, as you might expect, it's in the second book whose original title is The House at Pooh Corner. The book was published in 1928 and was still illustrated by E.H. Shepard: the stories featuring...
O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car. He hears me not, but o’er the yawning deep Rides heavy; his storms are unchain’d, sheathed In ribbed steel; I dare...
I'm sure you're familiar with P.L. Travers and her Mary Poppins. Or, to better put it, I'm sure lots of you are familiar with the Disney movie (and I hope not as many of you are familiar with the appalling sequel). The books, however, are...
Well, today we move to Japan and we meet a particular yōkai, the Yuki-onna (雪女) or "snow woman". I found this particular story in a beautiful collection of Japanese tales illustrated by Kotaro Chiba. This particular story is the one narrated by Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, also...
One of my favourite episodes from the Winnie The Pooh first book (which is called just like that) is set in winter and I like it because it's extremely silly but also extremely wise, like our favourite bear: it's a tale about how often we...
