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"...guided along as it were a chain of flowers into the mysteries of life."

Museum of Jurassic Technology

Tales of the Night

  

Tales of the Night , Michel Ocelot (Kirikou and the Sorceress, Azur & Asmar)'s film extends the earlier shadow puppet style of Ocelot’s Princes and Princesses, with black silhouetted characters set off against exquisitely detailed Day-Glo backgrounds bursting with color and kaleidoscopic patterns.

The film weaves together six exotic fables each unfolding in a unique locale, from Tibet, to medieval Europe, an Aztec kingdom, the African plains, and even the Land of the Dead.

'The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats'

The Snowy Day and the Art of Ezra Jack Keats, at The Jewish Museum, is the first major exhibition in this country to pay tribute to award-winning author and illustrator Ezra Jack Keats (1916–1983), whose beloved children’s books include Whistle for Willie, Peter’s Chair, and The Snowy Day—the first modern full-color picture book to feature an African-American protagonist.Published in 1962, at the height of the civil rights movement in America, the book went on to become an inspiration for generations of readers, transforming children’s literature forever. 

"But then the demon, much too soon, returned one Sunday afternoon."

Edward Gorey

Honest Boy Pencil Sharpener

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Stuffed

"Then close your eyes and tap your heels together three times. And think to yourself, 'There's no place like home'."

A pair of the iconic ruby red slippers from "The Wizard of Oz" is going up for auction with an estimated price of $2 - $3 million.

California auction house Profiles in History said the slippers -- one of four known surviving pairs made for the 1939 movie -- are believed to have been worn by Judy Garland's Dorothy when she clicks her heels to return home to Kansas near the end of the film. 

The slippers will be auctioned on December 16 in Los Angeles as part of a Hollywood memorabilia sale. 

Wonderment

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"Blind folk see the fairies. Oh, better far than we, Who miss the shining of their wings Because our eyes are filled with things We do not wish to see." ~Rose Fyleman

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"Riding the Green Lobster"

Images from Karel en Mienet 1 [link] and 2 [link] by Marietje Witteveen with illustrations by Eddy Dukkers (Eduard Willem Anton (Ed) Dukkers, 1923–96), ca. 1950. Follow those links to read the books (and 850 others) in full at a huge Dutch library site. BibliOdyssey featured it in 2009.

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