The Last Bee of Summer – An Autumn Story
A story of the changing seasons, a mournful peacock butterfly, and a hard-working bee whose end is very near. This story was taken from Dewdrops from Fairyland – Illustrated by A. Duncan Carse. […]
A Red Rose Girl – Jessie Willcox Smith
Jessie Willcox Smith was born on this day in 1863. A prolific illustrator of children’s books, Jessie Willcox Smith carved a successful career as a female artist and illustrator through the male-dominated late 19th and early […]
Top 6 Female Authors and Illustrators to Celebrate Women’s Equality Day
In 1971, American Congress officially stated August 26th as Women’s Equality Day. 2019 is the 99th anniversary of women winning the right to vote, and so in celebration of Women’s Equality Day, we’re bringing you our […]
The Storks – A Hans Christian Andersen Tale
Four determined young storks, a spiteful rhyme, and a twisted moral with a dreadful fate. The text for this story was taken from Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen – Illustrated by Harry Clarke. The […]
The Imp Tree
The Imp Tree tale is from Fairy Gold: A Book of Old English Fairy Tales. It was compiled by Ernest Rhys and illustrated by Herbert Cole. Rhys was a famed writer and editor – best known […]
The Elder Tree Mother
This story is taken from The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen – Illustrated by Kay Nielsen. It was a project that took Nielsen twelve years to complete, and his illustrations perfectly capture the other-worldly spirit […]
The Giant who had no Heart in his Body
This tale is from East of the Sun and West of the Moon – Old Tales From the North. A collection of Nordic and Norwegian folklore, edited and collated by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe. […]
The Seven Ravens
The story of a wish come true, a brave and bold sister, and an adventure to the glass mountain. The Seven Ravens A Brothers Grimm Tale THERE was once a Man who had seven […]
The Snow Man
A diamond dusted garden, a know-it-all yard dog, and a stove-sick snowman. The Snow Man befriends an old yard dog in a beautiful wintery garden where the trees look like a ‘forest of coral’. The Old […]
How the Camel got his Hump
A World so new-and-all, the Djinn of All Deserts and a very lazy camel. How the Camel Got His Hump is a classic Just So Story from Rudyard Kipling. These fantastically imaginative stories are amongst the […]
The Night Before Christmas
‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse’ Christmas is coming! Here is our gorgeous edition of The Night Before Christmas, a christmas poem, originally […]
