“I do believe,” said Susan. “But how queer!

They’re nibbling away at the cords!”

“That’s what i thought,’ said Lucy. “I think they’re friendly mice. Poor little things–they don’t realize he’s dead. They think it’ll do some good untying him.”

— C.S. Lewis

Artist: Jeremy Ackerman
Medium: Computer Illustration

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“Nothing gave her so much pleasure as to hear about the world above the sea…and she rose as lightly as a bubble to the surface of the water.”

— Hans Christian Anderson

Artist: Michael Berger
Medium: Pastel

“and the flapping of his wings produced the thunder and the flashing of his large luminous eyes — the lightning”

— Native American Myth

Artist: Sherry Berger
Medium: Gouache Resist

“Once there was a tree, and she loved a boy. Every day the boy would come and swing from her branches, eat her apples and sleep in her shade. And the tree was happy.”

— Shel Silverstein

Artist: Maureen Bradley
Medium: Cut Paper

“You’d be cross too, If you’d a wig like mine,” the wasp went on. They jokes at one. And they worrits one. And I gets cross. And I gets cold. And I gets under a tree. And I gets a yellow handkerchief. And I ties up my face — as at the present”

— Lewis Carroll

Artist: Jaquelin Brough
Medium: Dyes, Spray Paint, Photoshop

“However, just when the sun was about to set, she heard a rustling sound and saw six swans come flying through the window, They landed on the floor and blew at each other until all their feathers were blown off.”

— The Brothers Grimm

Artist: Heather Bryson
Medium: SS, 18K, 22K, Shells, Sapphire, Color Change Sapp. Tsavorite (Photo by Alan Kolc)

“One Beautiful night on the banks of the turbid Amazon, Painted Jaguar found Stickly-Prickly Hedgehog and Slow-and Solid Tortoise sitting under the trunk of a fallen tree.”

— Rudyard Kipling

Artist: Annette Brzoska Nass
Medium: Computer Illustration

“All the other little bulls he lived with would run and jump and butt their heads together, but not Ferdinand. He liked to sit just quietly and smell the flowers.”

— Munro Leaf

Artist: Dee Collins
Medium: Monotype & Relief

“They pulled and they pulled and they pulled
but still they could not move it.
The enormous turnip was stuck fast.”

— A Russina Folktale

Artist: Rhea Dennis
Medium: Gouache

“Why didn’t you collect a store of food for the winter?” “The fact is,” replied the grasshopper,“I was so busy playing that i hadn’t the time.”

— An Aesop Fable

Artist: Robert Dennis
Medium: Photoshop