Check out the biggest tiny zine about Borrowers you will ever read. My A5/half-size Borrowers zine has been retired, and replaced by a 34 page accordion folded micro-zine, plus additional 8 page introduction. The text is equally tiny, hence the miniature magnifying glass included, which also fits into the box (while stocks last).  I thought the reduced scale was more appropriate to the subject matter!
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I have also added some special editions of Enchanted Times, with Intuition Doll kits in green or red, instead of the standard black & white.  There’s only one of each left (the blue was snapped up yesterday) so
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Great colours for Christmas!

JUEVES 26 DE NOVIEMBRE

WARNER CHANNEL 22:00 hrs

SKY 205 / CABLEVISIÓN 210

Supernatural / The CW / Warner Channel / 2009

Sam y Dean investigan un caso de personajes de cuentos de hadas que se convierten en verdaderos. En su búsqueda encuentran al responsable y su sorpresa es mayor al descubrir que se trata de un niño que crea creaturas reales de la fantasía. Los hermanos no están de acuerdo cuando Castiel les dice que tienen que matar al niño por los poderes que posee.

The Frog Prince

She was never a big fan of the castle pond.

It lay at the fartherest corner, hidden by scrubby shrubs, and gnarly trees that dropped leaves into the nasty brown water. Frog spawn clung to the edges of the pond like an unfashionable necklace. Really big spiders waited for short-sighted flies. Pretty awful, all in all.

Princess Felicity generally stayed away but one day when she was playing soccer with the stableboys (because she was an egalitarian sort of a princess), she mistimed a kick. Her golden soccer ball spun off into the nasty tangle of foliage. There was a splash. The stable boys disappeared speedily…

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Today is Thanksgiving in the US, a holiday marked primarily by having a large meal together with family and/or loved ones. In previous years, I’ve set the table with utensils, and served up some turkeys. This year, I want to make sure we include bread (and a few other bready baked goods) in our ongoing ThThTh feast.

• break bread: an expression meaning “have a meal together with people”
• “Breaking Bread,” a song by Johnny Cash
• “bumped his head on a piece of bread”: a line from the song/nursery rhyme “It’s raining, it’s pouring” in the version I learned as a child (though not in more commonly known versions). Did anyone else learn this version?
  

  It’s raining, it’s pouring
  The old man in snoring.
  Bumped his head on a piece of bread,
  And didn’t get up till morning.

• bread: a slang term for money
• breadwinner: one who earns money for a household
• dough: another term for “bread” as in “I’ll need some dough to buy bread”
• dough: a mixture of flour, water and other ingredients used to bake bread, as in “I’ll knead some dough to bake bread.”
• The Pillsbury Doughboy: an anthropomorphic wad of dough used to sell products for Pillsbury.
• half a loaf is better than no bread or half a loaf is better than none: an expression meaning, roughly “getting something is better than getting nothing”
• “Half a loaf is better than low bred:” a joke made by John Steed in The Avengers episode “The Correct Way to Kill”



• The Little Red Hen: a fairy tale about a hard-working, wheat-growing, flour-grinding, bread-baking hen who gets no help from her lazy companions, who prefer to loaf.
• “give us this day our daily bread:” a line from the Lord’s Prayer, a prayer recited by Christian church-goers
• bread line: a queue to receive food from a charitable organization
• whitebread: a slang adjective used to describe someone whose tastes are bland and culturally mainstream, or things associated with such a person. Such as white bread.
• bun in the oven: an expression meaning “knocked up”
• The Muffin Man: an English nursery rhyme. Do you know the muffin man?
• muffin top: the lumps of flesh about the waist caused by wearing pants that are too tight
• Hansel and Gretel: in this fairy tale, two children leave a trail of breadcrumbs to mark their path so that they won’t get lost in the woods. It’s not a particularly effective method.
• bread is the staff of life: a saying about the importance of bread. Etymology online says:
  

  Staff of life “bread” is from the Biblical phrase “to break the staff of bread” (Lev. xxvi.26), transl. Heb. matteh lekhem.

  I’ll take a page from Magpie and redirect you to this blogger, who poked further into the orgins of the phrase.

• “I’ll grind his bones to make my bread,” a line spoken by the giant in Jack and the Beanstalk:
  

  Fee-fi-fo-fum!
  I smell the blood of an Englishman.
  Be he ‘live, or be he dead,
  I’ll grind his bones to make my bread.

• the best thing since sliced bread: an expression said appreciatively of something really innovative, or just something really good. Often said facetiously.
• bread and circus: as the wiki says, since I’m too tired/lazy to say something on my own “is a metaphor for handouts and petty amusements that politicians use to gain popular support, instead of gaining it through sound policy”
• Project Bread, a Massachusetts anti-hunger organization. I’ll donate $5.00 to them for each commenter who includes the name of a type of bread in the comments below.

image credits: bread from wpclipart, Little Red Hen from Ella M. Beebe Picture Primer (New York: American Book Company, 1910) 87 from clipart ETC.

by Jonathan Burrello

Perhaps there is nothing remotely binding between the holiday in which we partake of turkey and welcome family fellowship with the 1934 Laurel & Hardy musical “March of the Wooden Soldiers” (a.k.a. “Babes in Toyland”). All I know is that at my house growing up, it wasn’t Thanksgiving without this odd comedy (it used to be a holiday staple on TV in the 60’s and 70’s). The film stars the legendary comedy team of the infantile Stan Laurel and the rotund Oliver Hardy and features an interesting—and sometimes dark—peek into the world of fairy tales and nursery fables.

My deep admiration of Laurel and Hardy clearly influenced my enjoyment of this twisted yarn, but even for the uninitiated this film has undeniable charm and an incorrigible sense of whimsy…but it wouldn’t hurt to enjoy some of their other work and funny shorts first. The duo’s shtick was a basic one: two grown men with extremely childlike sensibilities saunter in and out of trouble while the softer more naive Laurel inadvertently causes more duress for the more domineering Hardy. They would put these characters into many situations and milk the comedy out of any circumstance and, naturally, the darker the dilemma the funnier the solution. Like Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy were always funniest to me when they were up against monsters, killers, ghosts, gangsters, etc. and in “March of the Wooden Soldiers” (directed by Gus Meins and Charley Rogers) they bounce from delightful childhood storybook characters to an army of Bogeymen led by the conniving Crooked Man, Silas Barnaby (Henry Brandon).

Based on Victor Herbert’s 1903 operetta, Silas Barnaby is the wealthiest and meanest man in town (you don’t get rich by being nice to people), and he is in love with Little Bo-Peep (Charlotte Henry), but she loves the gallant Tom-Tom Piper (Felix Knight). Barnaby will not be beat so he frames Tom-Tom for pig-napping one of the Three Little Pigs and then furthers the deed by making it look as though Tom-Tom also ground him into sausage. Ollie Dee and Stannie Dum (Laurel and Hardy), two boarders with the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe (Florence Roberts) and friend of Bo-Peep, suspect foul play and so embark on a mission to find the truth…but get themselves arrested for burglary when they try to steal Mother Peep’s mortgage from Barnaby.

Screwball mishaps abound as the lovable duo rub elbows with Mother Goose, Rock-a-by Baby, Old King Cole, Mary Quite Contrary, Santa Claus, the Sandman, and many others. There are five musical numbers including the memorable “March of the Toys” instrumental piece that plays during the final battle when Laurel and Hardy unleash 100 giant Wooden Toy Soldiers on the vicious Bogeymen. The battle at the end is a lot of fun. All the characters band together to fight off the onslaught of monsters in their own unique ways. “March of the Wooden Soldiers” is a funny, entertaining, scary, bizarre, and fun Thanksgiving adventure for everyone.

Personal notes: The Bogeymen are actually not the scariest part of this film. My family and I have always been slightly perturbed by the weird rubber pig costumes and the glassy eyed cat playing the cello (pigs and cat all played by people in suits). Another spooky aspect (but somehow absolutely fantastic in an incredibly deranged way) is the presence of Mickey Mouse. I’ve heard that they couldn’t get the rights from Disney (little surprise), but they still have a black mouse character with round head and ears, white gloves, red trousers, and yellow shoes. The spooky part: Mickey Mouse is played by small monkey that has been freakishly adorned to vaguely resemble the iconic rodent. The Mickey Mouse creature scrambles around, throwing bricks at the cat and is easily one of the coolest parts of the Bogeyman Battle (I won’t ruin it), but is still slightly unnerving. Last note: This film is one of those rare movies that really benefits from the computer colorization process. Originally shot in black and white, the colorized version actually enhances the film and brings a lot more magic to this already special movie.

This celebrated classic may be strange, but I encourage you to invite Laurel and Hardy and the rest of Toyland into your home this Thanksgiving.

Kids around the country are probably already counting down the days until the release of Disney’s latest animated film: The Princess and the Frog. The movie, based on E.D. Baker’s 2002 YA novel The Frog Princess and the Grimm brothers’ classic The Frog Prince, opens in New York and Los Angeles today. The rest of us can’t see it until Dec. 11 (such a disappointment, when the trailer – after the jump – looks so fantastic).

Set in New Orleans’ French Quarter, the plot follows Tiana (the first African-American Disney princess) as she’s turned into a frog after a kiss from Naveen – a prince who’d himself been turned into a frog. To reverse the spell, they have to seek out the good voodoo priestess of the Bayou.

Looking forward to the movie, I thought I’d revisit some contemporary fairy tales covered in BookPage (click on the book covers to read the review). Browse, enjoy and tell us: What’s your favorite fairy tale?

Trailer of The Princess and the Frog:

Moje bajkowe projekty. Walczę z komputerem starając się coś stworzyć. Malowała Ola Brożek. Pozowała Dorota. Sesja robiona w lipcu 2009.

Novo photoshoot da Annie Leibovitz para a Vogue edição Dezembro de 2009, com a nossa querida-estranha-bizarra Lady Gaga, inspirado no conto de fadas João e Maria, os modelos são Lily Cole e Andrew Garfield

The Man on the Moon - Page 9

Mindy drove home.

No, this is house of sticks the 3 bears live down the road

dat ber took ma noms

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Brittany DeWester est une jeune photographe américaine de 24 ans. Passionnée par les contes de fées, elle réalise au cours de ses études, la série The Shadow Tales.

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 ”Je m’en vais chez Mère-grand, lui apporter du beurre et …”

 Et le petit chaperon se fît manger par le loup qui n’avait pas vraiment envie d’écouter la jeune fille lui raconter sa vie de paysanne.

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I just decided that my fairy tale obsession needs its own home.  It will, of course, still feature here when relevant; but if you share my fascination, hop over here, to the online edition of The Enchanted Times.  Content is a little thin currently, but it will be growing, so please check back .