February 2012
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“Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write...”
– E.B. White. (via kaitmaree)
Great quote. Children’s books are great, and anyone who thinks otherwise probably hasn’t read any in quite some time. (via anidori-kiladra-talianna-isilee)
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“And overbold I may be accounted, for though I have been a lover of fairy-stories...”
– JRR Tolkien “On Fairy Stories”
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Fee-fi-fo-fum
Fee-fi-fo-fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman, Be he alive, or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.
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“To conceal you, the donkey’s skin will be an admirable disguise, for when you...”
– “Donkey Skin” by Charles Perrault (read it here)
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Grimms Fairy Tales: Faithful John
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“There was once upon a time an old king who was ill and thought to himself ‘I am lying on what must be my deathbed.’ Then said he ‘tell faithful John to come to me.’ Faithful John was his favorite servant, and was so called, because he had for his whole life long been so true to him. When therefore he came beside the bed, the king said to him ‘most faithful John, I feel...
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