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Fairy Tales & Folklore Posters & Prints
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educational posters > literature posters > Fairy Tales Posters < children < social studies
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Fairy tales are episodic stories involving a world filled with marvelous things and events - the hero (or heroine) overcomes evil and then live happily ever after. Based in folklore the fairy tales are written versions of oral and narrative tradiitons and include proverbs, jokes, and riddles. The study of folklore can identify religious and mythic elements that help recognize the interconnectedness between what otherwise appear to be total separate societies, however fairy tales usually regale the daily life.
"Fairy tales are more than true - not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten." G. K. Chesterton
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Ali Baba and the story of the Forty Thieves, from the Book of One Thousand and One Nights, tells how a poor man discovers the loot of a band of thieves and takes just enough (“Open Sesame”), the greed of his brother who takes more, and the cleverness of his slave who saves herself by saving the people who stole from thieves.
The Arabian Nights, the story of Scheherazade telling one unfinished story a night for three years, is the frame a collection of stories whose roots can be found in ancient Arabic, Indian, Persian, and Egyptian sources.
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Beauty and the Beast captures our longing for good to triumph over evil, for enduring love and virtue to be valued more than gold.
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Bluebeard Attempting to Kill His Last Wife, Fatima, Illustration from "Contes De Ma Mere L'Oye", illustrator Frédéric Théodore Lix, Giclee Print
Bluebeard is in the tradition of the one forbidden thing: "Eve, don't eat the apple.", "Psyche, don't look on his face.", "Pandora, don't open the box."
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Cinderella and the Glass Slipper," (Aschenputtel), Illustration from "Les Contes De Perrault", Gustav Dore, Giclee Print
There are hundreds of versions of unjust oppression overcome by an attendant spirit and love. The earliest known version is Chinese from c. 860 AD.
• Cinderella opera poster
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Hanzel and Gretel is a German fairy tale collected by the Grimm Brothers. It originated in the Middle Ages when infanticide was a common practice.
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Little Red Riding Hood was first published in 17th century France, based on versions from the 14th century and many countries - the message is "it's safer in town than in the country (or let's put some technology between us and wild nature)." So why did they leave the elderly in the woods and then send a child to care for her?
Well, clearly it's was just as difficult and heartbreaking to get someone to leave their lifelong home and go into nursing care in the 17th century as it is now; today's wolf does cold calling to steal identities, and working parents rely on their children to help with family situations.
• teeth & dental posters
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Puss in Boots is the tale of a cat helping an impoverished master, the "Marques de Carabas" attain wealth through trickery.
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Three Little Pigs is a cautionary tale for children about heeding parental advice and avoiding the Big Bad Wolf. The "pigs" tale is from the 19th century and bears resemblence to an earlier recording by the Grimm Brothers of "The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids", also Little Red Riding Hood.
• more pigs
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Rapunzel
A woman, long childless, finds herself pregnant and craving the greens "rapunzel" growing in the walled garden next door. The husband, caught by the old woman gardener as he steals some of the rapunzel (also called rampion), promises her the newborn child, if she will only let him go. The old woman keeps the girl child "safe" in a doorless, stairless tower. When the old woman wants to visit Rapunzel she would command the girl to "let down her hair", and the old woman would climb up. Eventually a wandering prince sees the old woman climbing the long hair and uses the same access to meet and fall in love with the Rapunzel. When the pair are discovered, the enraged old woman pushes the prince out the high window into a bed of thornes that scratch his eyes and blinds him; she also casts the Rapunzel out. The homeless girl and the now blind, wandering prince find one another and Rapunzel's tears to joy cure the Prince's blindness. The End.
Rampion is a gourmet salad green - seeds here.
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Rumplestiltskin
Rumplestiltskin is a dwarf or goblin who seeks an advantage by playing on the need for feeling important and greed - first the father brags his daughter can spin straw into gold, then the king wants lots of gold, so the girl bargains with a strange little man to fulfill the wishes of both men. What she has to do is give up her first born - but when the time comes the dwarf gives her a reprieve, if she can guess his name.
Rumplestiltskin is first mentioned in an adaption of of Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel.
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Sleeping Beauty
Sleeping Beauty, a fairytale classic, has several versions. The basic theme is a much desired child is cursed because of an oversight by the parents in the invitations to the christening. The slighted fairy dooms the princess to prick her finger on a spindle and die. The good godmothers can only alter the spell so the Princess will fall asleep for a hundred years until a prince awakens her with a kiss. The King decides to eliminate the problem by banning all spinning from the land (this would be a huge hardship in those days - if no one was spinning eventually the kingdom would be without clothing.) Despite the prohibition on spindles, the day arrives when the princess sees an old woman spinning.
Curious about this strange activity, she reaches for the spindle, pricks her finger and falls asleep - as does everyone else in the kingdom. In one hundred years the prince show up, kisses the Sleeping Beauty, awakens everyone, and they all live happily ever after.
Little is known about the illustrator Jennie Harbor- her work was published by Raphael Tuck and Sons, the official publisher to Queen Victoria. Unfortunately all their records were destroyed in the Blitz of London, 1940.
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Snow White
The Snow White story is another common theme in fairy tales: young child loses mother (primary protector), step mother devises a way to remove child from home, child survives and is stronger for the adventure (hero's journey). In other versions the mirror is the moon, and the seven dwarfs are seven robbers.
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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 illustrator who was strongly inspired by Slavic folklore. He died during the siege of Leningrad in WWII.
• Russia posters
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Illustrations of Fairy Stories, the Majority of Charles Perrault
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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Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm
b. 1785 & 1786; Germany
The Brothers Grimm were German professors best known for their publication of fairy and folk tales collected as they did their linguistic research on how sounds in words shift over time.
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The Emperor and the Nightingale, Illustration for "The Nightingale"
by Harry Clarke, Giclee Print
also The Old Man is Always Right, The Ugly Duckling, & The Little Mermaid
• Hans Christian Andersen posters
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