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Thumbelina came to live with the Field-Mouse. (Gutenberg [EBook #19993])
Fairy Tales and Fables: a Page
Yesterday, I had every intention of posting a short article on Anansi, a folktale character black slaves brought to the Americas. However, I thought I should first provide a list of posts on fables and fairy tales. It turned into a lengthy process because I had not kept a list of RELATED ARTICLES for most posts on fairy tales.
The page I posted yesterday is therefore incomplete. I will add a list of fables later. I kept a record of these posts, but must add the date on which each was published. I have a list of posts of fables, but each post needs a date. It seems that posts do not exist unless they are listed.
Childhood Favorites and Fairy Stories
However, I would like to invite you to take a peek at the Project Gutenberg’s EBook #19993. It is a collection of literary works for children and it includes poems, limericks, the words to songs, and fables and fairy tales originating from several countries.
The copyright was obtained in 1909, but the book was published in 1927 by the University Society of New York. By 1927, its editors had died. These are Hamilton Wright Mabie, Edward Everett Hale William Byron Forbus. William Byron Forbus died in 1927. All three editors are well-known authors, but we may have forgotten them. Today is the day we remember them.
In this collection, the art work is not always attributed to a specific illustrator, which is the fate of the image featured at the top of this post, that of Thumbelina. It’s a little gem. But the illustration contains initials: O. A.. The editors have indicated that “[m]any of the illustrations in this volume are reproduced by special permission of E. P. Dutton & Company, owners of the American rights.”
Childhood’s Favorites and Fairy Stories is also an Internet Archive Publication. It can be accessed by clicking on its title. There are a few copies of this book online perhaps indicating its importance. Combined with An Argosy of Fables, this book is a lovely discovery.
The book is entitled:
Childhood’s Favorites and Fairy Stories
Volume 1
I have not found a Volume 2.
Several authors are represented in this collection, including Shakespeare. However, I have chosen to end this short post using a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It’s a lullaby.
“SWEET AND LOW”
Sweet and low, sweet and low,
Wind of the western sea,
Low, low, breathe and blow,
Wind of the western sea!
Over the rolling waters go,
Come from the dying moon, and blow,
Blow him again to me:
While my little one, while my pretty one, sleeps.
Sleep and rest, sleep and rest,
Father will come to thee soon;
Rest, rest, on mother’s breast,
Father will come to thee soon;
Father will come to his babe in the nest,
Silver sails all out of the west
Under the silver moon:
Sleep, my little one, sleep, my pretty one, sleep.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
With warm greetings to all of you. ♥
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© Micheline Walker
10 August 2015
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Lovely to be reminded of Tennyson’s lullaby. My daughter liked the sung version.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avuo4HzUlKw&list=RDAvuo4HzUlKw#t=0
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That collection does take one back to a rich past: Tennyson’s Lullaby. His poems are splendid. Magical words. Thank you Gallivanta.
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Recently I have been reminiscing with my mother about the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Thumbelina was one of the stories discussed.
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Fairy tales and fables are a rich heritage. I am pleased that these are being preserved. Universities now offer courses in myths and folklore. It is precious guidance to future teachers and students enrolled in religious studies and anthropology. I helped create this discipline, with the assistance of experts from all over the world. My area was animals, but it includes fairy tales: Beauty and the Beast, Puss in Boots, and Princes and princesses that are turned into toads. Dear Gallivanta, thank you for writing. I hope your health is better.
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I am doing very well, thank you, Micheline.
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Good news. You had been unwell.
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Reading this so early Monday morning makes me feel like going back to bed, the one I used to sleep on a long long time ago. thanks Micheline.
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I should have posted this short article, last night. Hope fills our early years. We can’t imagine anything will go amiss. When hope dies, it is as though one had been hit by a locomotive! I have a cat in whose little heart hope “springs eternal.” Yet his happiness depends on me. This is power I would prefer not to have. I love the illustration. It’s priceless.
Thank you Wesley,
Micheline
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