Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies

Little Lit: Folklore & Fairy Tale Funnies PDF

Author: Art Spiegelman

Publisher: HarperColl

Published: 2000-10-03

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780060286248

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A treasure and a treasury! Innovative cartoonist and renowned children's book artists from around the world have gathered to bring you the magic of fairy tales through the wonder of comics. The stories range from old favorites to new discoveries, from the profound to the silly. A treat for all ages, these picture stories unlock the enchanted door into the pleasures of books and reading! Best Children's Books 2000 (PW)

Big Fat Little Lit

Big Fat Little Lit PDF

Author: Art Spiegelman

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 2006-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781417752744

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Choice comic stories from three bestselling collections, showcasing the worksof numerous artists, are beautifully reproduced together for the first time.

Telling Stories Wrong

Telling Stories Wrong PDF

Author: Gianni Rodari

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2023-02-07

Total Pages: 19

ISBN-13: 1592703968

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A New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children's Book of 2022 ★ Everyone knows how "Little Red Riding Hood" goes. But Grandpa keeps getting the story all wrong, with hilarious results! "Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Little Yellow Riding Hood—" "Not yellow! It's Red Riding Hood!" So begins the story of a grandpa playfully recounting the well-known fairytale—or his version, at least—to his granddaughter. Try as she might to get him back on track, Grandpa keeps on adding things to the mix, both outlandish and mundane! The end result is an unpredictable tale that comes alive as it's being told, born out of imaginative play and familial affection. This spirited picture book will surprise and delight from start to finish, while reminding readers that storytelling is not only a creative act of improvisation and interaction, but also a powerful pathway for connection and love. Telling Stories Wrong was written by Gianni Rodari, widely regarded as the father of modern Italian children's literature. It exemplifies his great respect for the intelligence of children and the kind of work he did as an educator, developing numerous games and exercises for children to engage and think beyond the status quo, imagining what happens after the end of a familiar story, or what possibilities open up when a new ingredient is introduced. This book is illustrated with great affection by the illustrious artist Beatrice Alemagna (Child of Glass), who counts Gianni Rodari as one of her "spiritual fathers."

The Song of Aglaia

The Song of Aglaia PDF

Author: Anne Simon

Publisher: Fantagraphics Books

Published: 2018-07-04

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 1683961072

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Aglaia is a simple sea nymph. One day, a Merman seduces Aglaia, forever altering her life’s course. She is cast out of Oceanid by her chauvinistic father, forcing her to wander many days and nights, until one day she finds herself at the benefit of one Mr. Kite, whose traveling circus welcomes her (including the star attraction, a waltzing Horse named Henry) and once again alters her fate, sending her down many more unexpected paths. The Song of Aglaia is the first solo graphic novel by cartoonist Anne Simon, presenting a beautifully crafted female spin on the classic heroic myths of Greek literature, tracing the journey of a victimized and then almighty woman with a graceful understanding of human relationships and loving nods to the Bronte sisters, David Bowie, and the Beatles.

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales

Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales PDF

Author: Kurt Schwitters

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780691139678

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Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first time all but a few of them have appeared in English. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world's leading authorities on fairy tales, this book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitters's death in 1948--including a complete English-language recreation of The Scarecrow, a children's book illustrated with avant-garde typography that Schwitters created with Kate Steinitz and De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales also includes brilliant new illustrations that evoke the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Schwitters wrote these darkly humorous, satirical, and surreal tales at a time when traditional German fairy tales were being co-opted by the Nazis. Filled with sharp critiques of German life during the Weimar and early Nazi eras, Schwitters's tales are rich with absurdist events and insist that not everyone--and perhaps not anyone--lives happily ever after. In "Lucky Hans," the starving protagonist tries to catch a rabbit only to have it shed its fur like a coat and run off naked into the forest. In other tales, a sarcastic gypsy stands in for a fairy godmother and an army recruit is arrested for growing to monstrous size. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is a delightfully strange and surprising book.

The Brown Fairy Book

The Brown Fairy Book PDF

Author: Andrew Lang

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 1904

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13:

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The stories in this Fairy Book come from all quarters of the world. For example, the adventures of 'Ball-Carrier and the Bad One' are told by Red Indian grandmothers to Red Indian children who never go to school, nor see pen and ink. 'The Bunyip' is known to even more uneducated little ones, running about with no clothes at all in the bush, in Australia. You may see photographs of these merry little black fellows before their troubles begin, in 'Northern Races of Central Australia, ' by Messrs. Spencer and Gillen. They have no lessons except in tracking and catching birds, beasts, fishes, lizards, and snakes, all of which they eat. But when they grow up to be big boys and girls, they are cruelly cut about with stone knives and frightened with sham bogies all for their good' their parents say and I think they would rather go to school, if they had their choice, and take their chance of being birched and bullied

Open Me... I'm a Dog!

Open Me... I'm a Dog! PDF

Author: Art Spiegelman

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9780060273217

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Is it a book? Is it a dog? From one of today's foremost comic book illustrators comes a picture book that barks and wags its tail! The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Maus" has created a book that wants readers to pet it, not just turn the pages. Featuring a sturdy cotton leash, fuzzy endpapers, and much more, "Open Me . . . I'm a Dog!" is a book that will become a special pal. Full color.

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