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Children's Literature Posters
illustrations of fables, fairy tales and nursery rhymes for classrooms, homes and tutor's studio.
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literature posters > Children's Literature < children's authors < children < social studies
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Children's Literature education posters illustrate fables, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes.
Folklore is the oral and narrative traditions of a culture and includes proverbs, jokes, and tales. The study of folklore can identify religious and mythic elements that help recognize the interconnectedness between what otherwise appear to be total separate societies.
Nursery rhymes are traditional songs or poems taught to young children to instill skills such as counting or associating a sound with an animal.
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Aesop's Fables-
(ca. 620 - 560 BC)
Aesop's Fables are short stories using personified animals to tell a cautionary tale, a moral lesson, a rule of behavior. Over 200 fables have been attributed to Aesop, who was possibly a Greek slave of African descent c. 600 BC. The word Aesop means Ethiop in Ancient Greek.
Aesop quotes ~
• “Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.”
• “Any excuse will serve a tyrant.”
• “Appearances are often deceiving.”
• “Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.”
• “Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. ”
• “Familiarity breeds contempt.”
• “Example is the best precept.”
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Madame D'Aulnoy (1650-1705), also known as Countess d'Aulnoy, is remembered for originating the term contes de fées, fairy tales, that is now generally used for the genre.
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“Mother Goose” is an archetypal country woman who fusses over her charges and instructs them with fantastic tales. Mother Goose is first mentioned in 1660 by Charles Perrault.
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Charles Perrault, in adapting early folk tales, laid the foundations for the fairy tale genre in a book subtitled “Tales of Mother Goose”. His works include Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, and Bluebeard.
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Struwwelpeter, or Slovenly Peter, was a popular children's book written by psychiatrist Heinrich Hoffmann, a father wanting a picture book as a Christmas gift for his son. The “junk opera”, Shockheaded Peter, is based on Struwwelpeter.
• Struwwelpeter in English Translation 
“When the children have been good/ This, be it understood/ Good at meal-times, good at play/ Good all night and good all day–/ They shall have the pretty things/ Merry Christmas always brings.
Naughty, romping girls and boys/ Tear their clothes and make a noise,/ Spoil their pinafores and frocks, / And deserve no Christmas-book/ Such as these shall never look/ At this pretty Picture-book.”
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Hans Christian Andersen
b. 4-2-1805; Odense, Denmark
d. 8-4-1875
The Emperor's New Suit - “Why, but he hasn't got anything on!” they all shouted at last. And the emperor winced, for he felt they were right. But he thought to himself: “I must go through with the procession now.” And he drew himself up more proudly than ever, while the chamberlains walked behind him, bearing the train that wasn't there.
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The Brothers Grimm
Jacob
b. 1-4-1785 - d. 9-20-1863; Germany
Wilhelm
b. 2-24-1786 - d.12-16-1859
Best remembered today as folklorists, the Grimm Brothers were philologists. They combined the study of language and literature which lead to the transcribing and preserving the tales of the peasant classes.
The brothers are also considered as precursors of the German democratic movement.
• Grimms' Tales for Young and Old: The Complete Stories
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The Witch Baba Yaga, the Story of ‘Vassilissa the Beautiful’
Baba Yaga is the wild old woman (Baba means grandmother), mistress of magic and a forest spirit. She flies about in a mortar, steering with a pestle - the imagary of putting together magic potions, and her house is built on chicken legs.
Compare the Baba Yaga with the witch of Hansel and Gretel, or the wicked stepmother of Cinderella.
Bilibin was an influential 20th-century Russian illustrator who was strongly inspired by Slavic folklore. He died during the siege of Leningrad in WWII.
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Zora Neale Hurston
b. 1-7-1891; AL (raised in FL)
d. 1-28-1960
Zora Neale Hurston studied anthropology with Franz Boaz and collected materials related to the customs, traditional beliefs, legends, and sayings of the African American culture. She evolved those studies into two collections of folktales, four novels, an autobiography, a stage play and a number of essays.
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Frank Gelett Burgess
b. 1-30-1866; Boston
d. 9-18-1951
Artist, art critic, poet, author, and humorist Gelett Burgess penned these famous words-
“I never saw a Purple Cow;
I never hope to See One;
But I can Tell you, Anyhow,
I'd rather See than Be One”
After graduating from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Burgess went of California and became an instructor in topographical drawing at Berkeley, cofounded The Lark magazine where The Purple Cow was published, founded Le Petit Journal des Refusées which was composed entirely of material rejected by other publishers and printed on scraps of wallpaper, and wrote a series of children's books about child-like creatures he called “The Goops”.
Burgess also was the first American to write about cubist art in the U.S., interviewing Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Georges Braque; AND it seems he is attributed with coining the word “blurb”, meaning a short description of a book, film, or other product written for promotional purposes, in 1907.
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