Children's Literature Posters
illustrations of fables, fairy tales and nursery rhymes for classrooms, homes and tutor's studio.

Aesop Fables Poster

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.”

• Aesop quote poster
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Till Eulenspiegel was a trickster, or fool, from German folklore who played practical jokes.

Richard Strauss wrote a tone poem based on the “Merry Pranks” of Till Eulenspiegel.

• Till Eulenspiegel: His Adventures (paperback)

The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Anderson, Giclee Print Jennie Harbour, illustrator

Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, originally published in 1837 as a ballet, is about a young mermaid who is willing to give up her aquatic life to become human and love a human prince.

There have been many adaptions of the story, for instance The Little Mermaid by Disney, and the movie Splash.

Peter Rabbit Art Print

Peter Rabbit is an anthropomorphic character created by Beatrix Potter. Peter first appeared in The Tale of Peter Rabbit in 1902, and subsequently in five more books between 1904 and 1912.

Peter's mother is Mrs. Josephine Rabbit and his sisters are Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cotton-tail.

FYI ~ Peter is the oldest licensed character, starting as a soft toy in 1903 and expanded to dishes and porcelain figurines.

Alice & Advice from a Caterpillar, Giclee Print John Tenniel

Alice's Adventure in Wonderland, was first told by mathematician and minister Charles Lutwidge Dodgson to the Liddell children on a 1862 river outing.

It was Alice Liddell who asked their father's friend to write the story down and it published using the pen name Lewis Carroll.

Dr. Seuss Word Families Poster

Dr. Seuss' (Theodor Geisel) most famous books are Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, Horton Hatches the Egg, Horton Hears a Who!, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

FYI ~ Geisel was challenged to use 250 words first-graders should recognize - he mananged 236 in The Cat in the Hat.

• Cat in the Hat poster

The Little Prince Movie Poster

The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Expurey, is a fantasy exploration of profound philosophical questions, disguised as a children's book.

Winnie The Pooh, Stand-Up

Winnie-the-Pooh is an anthropomorphic bear first presented in a poem in 1924. A. A. Milne, the author, wrote short stories collected in The House at Pooh Corner (1926) and Now We Are Six (1927).

The name Winnie-the-Pooh is named after Milne's son stuffed bear, the character Christopher Robin is based on his son, Christopher Robin Milne.

FYI ~ The toy bear got its name from Winnie, a Canadian black bear in the London Zoo.

Charlotte's Web Movie Poster

Charlotte's Web is the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a spider named Charlotte.

E. B. White weaves a story of friendship by having Charlotte weave messages into her web that stop the slaughter Wilbur; in turn Wilbur protects Charlotte's eggs on her demise.

Frank Gelett Burgess
b. 1-30-1866; Boston, MA
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.