Andersens Fairy Tales | 
This regret is gonna haunt me. As soon as I got home I realized I shoulda bought it. 😭
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This regret is gonna haunt me. As soon as I got home I realized I shoulda bought it. 😭
This book was one of my favourite when I was a child 🥰
It belonged to my parents first, so I'm very fond to it ☺
I truly love Andersen's works (most of them), plus the illustrations are wonderful!
#hanschristianandersen #fairytales #illustrations #oldbook #memories #printedin1968 #loveit
#riotgrams day three: fairytales. Picked this up at a charity book sale earlier this year. I love the creepy non-Disney-fied versions. AKA the originals.
#CoolBooks #forest
"Far down in the forest, where the warm sun and the fresh air made a sweet resting place, grew a pretty little Fir tree. And yet it was not so happy--it wished so much to be tall like its companions, the pines and firs which grew around it." ???
There are forests mentioned throughout Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. I went with The Fir Tree?who spent too much time being discontented to enjoy his time in the forest.
#CoolBooks #woods
"If one went on walking, one came to beautiful woods with lofty trees and deep lakes. The wood extended to the sea, which was deep and blue, deep enough for large ships to sail up right under the branches of the trees. Among these trees lived a nightingale, which sang so deliciously that even poor fisherman, who had plenty of other things to do, lay still to listen to it when he was out at night drawing in his nets. ...
#QuotsyJune18 #duck ?
The only duck-ish quote I could think of off-hand.
"It does not matter in the least having been born in a duckyard if only you come out of a swan's egg!"
Images from Disney.?
A pile of children‘s #hardcovers. #oldcoolbooks @Linsy
A lovely old version of Andersen‘s Fairy Tales I found at a book sale. Guessing it is from the 20s or 30s. #riotgrams #fairytales #oldbooks
I think I've run out of books with #mermaids to post, so I'm going with the author of "The Little Mermaid" today. (Even though this collection doesn't actually include that story...) #WhatAWayToLive #PiratesLife
End papers from a very old copy of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales. I think my mom picked this up from a garage sale when I was a baby. As a child, I always loved these end papers (though I didn't know that's what they were called). #endpapers #readjanuary
#booktober #day17 #shortstories I'm not much of a reader of short stories, I like big books and I cannot lie! Short stories usually leave me feeling unfulfilled, I always want more. Stephen King is the only modern writer I've found so far who can pull off a decent short story, and of course Hans Cristian Anderson & The Grimm Bros were the masters of short stories & tales.
#funfridayphoto The Girl who Trod on a Loaf "Great, fat, sprawling spiders spun webs of a thousand years round and round their feet" This story both delighted and terrified me as a child.
