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Bedtime Stories: Let’s get adventurous, honey, let’s get adventurous

Next year, Cream will be celebrating its 30th anniversary, so already we’re scouring through past issues and online stories to bring you some of the more memorable published work.

Looking through our photo archives, we came across this beaut shoot which happened to pair classic fairy tale motifs with fab vintage accessories.

Because big kids still love the odd storybook!

Photography Helen White

Concept & styling Antonino Tati

↑ Jelly wedges by Melissa.

Inspiration: The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.

↑ Vintage music player by M:Robe.

Inspiration: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.

↑ Hooded cardigan by Pour.

Inspiration: Little Red Riding Hood by Charles Perrault (1697), revived by the Brothers Grimm (1812).

↑ Vintage runners by Adidas.

Inspiration: Rapunzel by the Brothers Grimm.

↑ Classic fragrances by Issey Miyake, Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, Escada, Alessandro Dell’Acqua, Ralph Lauren, Kenneth Cole, and Paul Smith.

Inspiration: Cinderella by Charles Perrault.

↑ ‘Candy’ red retro specs by Paul Taylor.

Inspiration: Hansel & Gretel by the Brothers Grimm.

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A tribute to Emilio Pucci: the designer who practically invented lifestyle

Australian Museum set to turn time waaaay back with mammoth dinosaur exhibition opening in November

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Spring Racing Season 2026 is officially on: This year’s Do’s and Don’ts

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Alles nur Lüge?
#OneSongaDay #AImusic #Song #Silbenknicker #FairyTales

Heute wieder ein Märchen:
#OneSongaDay #AImusic #Song #Silbenknicker #FairyTales

Veel mensen zeggen dat de Efteling helemaal het einde is.
Maar ik heb zelf niets met sprookjesfiguren.
Dus ik voel niet de behoefte om er naartoe te gaan.

#fairytales #efteling #dagjesuit

oder ist es das?
#fairytales #AImusic #Song #silbenknicker #Rapunzel

Mein aktuelles Lieblingsmärchen:
#fairytales #song #AImusic #silbenknicker #froschkönig

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4 A Perfect Imperfection: The traveler bought Copper on the spot, insisting his wobbly whistle was the most charming sound in the whole shop. Some things, it turns out, are loved precisely because they're a little off-key.
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#FairyTales #ChildrensStory #ShortStory #BedtimeStories #KidsBooks #KidsStory

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3 An Unlikely Customer: One rainy afternoon, a tired traveler wandered in, drawn not by shine but by the odd, warbling whistle drifting from the back shelf - it reminded him of an old song from home.
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#FairyTales #ChildrensStory #ShortStory #BedtimeStories #KidsBooks #KidsStory

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2 Left on the Shelf: Customers always chose the shiny, perfectly-whistling kettles instead, leaving Copper sitting quietly in the back of the shop, dust slowly gathering on his dented spout.
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#FairyTales #ChildrensStory #ShortStory #BedtimeStories #KidsBooks #KidsStory

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The Kettle That Sang Off-Key

1 A Broken Whistle: Every other kettle in the shop whistled a perfect clear note when boiling, but old Copper the kettle had a small dent that made his whistle come out wobbly, flat, and slightly ridiculous.
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#FairyTales #ChildrensStory #ShortStory #BedtimeStories #KidsBooks #KidsStory

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4 A Gift of Sound: Theo opened the jar, and his grandmother's echo rang out clear as the day he caught it. From then on, he kept collecting echoes, understanding at last why some sounds are worth saving.
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#FairyTales #ChildrensStory #ShortStory #BedtimeStories #KidsBooks #KidsStory

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3 The Quiet Winter: When Theo's grandmother grew too ill to call him home anymore, the house fell silent. One evening, missing her voice terribly, Theo remembered exactly which jar held her call.
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#FairyTales #ChildrensStory #ShortStory #BedtimeStories #KidsBooks #KidsStory

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2 A Jar Full of Sound: His collection grew - the echo of his own laughter, the echo of a passing train, the echo of his grandmother calling him home for dinner - each one sealed carefully with a cork.
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#FairyTales #ChildrensStory #ShortStory #BedtimeStories #KidsBooks #KidsStory

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The Boy Who Collected Echoes

1 A Curious Habit: Every afternoon, young Theo climbed into the hills behind his village and shouted into the canyon, not for fun, but to carefully collect each echo in a small glass jar he carried everywhere.
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#FairyTales #ChildrensStory #ShortStory #BedtimeStories #KidsBooks #KidsStory

The House of Despair

1
That corner of the yard
Where the neighbors tree
Invades with its tendrils
Having established a
Tenancy of years to
patiently engineer its
hold in the mortar of
the walls.

2
We keep to the path,
In our cowardly shoes,
We dance on our toes
afraid our feet may land
In a faery circle and freeze
Turning to stone, for a decade.
Are we the invaders, whose
fears grow as hyphae forming
the food of the gods, and the
formula for despair.

3
while our new house grows up
Around its papery bones of plywood
stucco and drywall stapled and glued
together. We’ve added crown molding
and the external frame smells like faint
minty green paint. I stand back at the
curbside and look at it, imaging I can
smell a whiff of sweetbread in aspic,
but it’s really gingerbread and the
marrow of misbehaved kids.

Great article.

#FairyTales #Märchen #ContesDeFée #Art

The wondrous history of fairy tale art – from wolves and witches to fallen princesses
https://theconversation.com/the-wondrous-history-of-fairy-tale-art-from-wolves-and-witches-to-fallen-princesses-292490

Selkies, from my book Seas Of Strangehollow, the third in my Strangehollow world. You can find the books here: buff.ly/7krkipG
#selkies #mermaid #merfolk #folklore #fairytales #artbook

Selkies, from my book Seas Of Strangehollow, the third in my Strangehollow world. You can find the books here: buff.ly/7krkipG
#selkies #mermaid #merfolk #folklore #fairytales #artbook

Longing for adventure but don't want to leave the comfort of your home? Journey into Strangehollow, a vast enchanted forest filled with extraordinary beasts and magical beings. Start with book one, dive in part way or get the whole set!
buff.ly/7krkipG
#artbook #folklore #fairytales #fantasyart

Longing for adventure but don't want to leave the comfort of your home? Journey into Strangehollow, a vast enchanted forest filled with extraordinary beasts and magical beings. Start with book one, dive in part way or get the whole set!
buff.ly/7krkipG
#artbook #folklore #fairytales #fantasyart

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4 The Signature Season: By the time Finn finished, the whole forest glowed like a sunset frozen in place. Every year since, the animals say autumn arrives a little late in Finn's woods, but it always arrives just right.
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#FairyTales #ChildrensStory #ShortStory #BedtimeStories #KidsBooks #KidsStory

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3 A Forest of Firsts: Leaf by leaf, the forest slowly transformed - amber oaks, crimson maples, golden birches. Other animals gathered to watch, certain some kind of quiet magic was happening around them.
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#FairyTales #ChildrensStory #ShortStory #BedtimeStories #KidsBooks #KidsStory

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2 The Borrowed Brush: Finn found an old paintbrush left behind by a hiker, its bristles still soft. He dipped it in puddles reflecting the sunset and began touching each leaf, one at a time, with borrowed color.
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#FairyTales #ChildrensStory #ShortStory #BedtimeStories #KidsBooks #KidsStory

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The Fox Who Painted Autumn

1 The Blank Forest: Finn the fox noticed the forest still looked green in early October, while every other forest nearby had already turned gold and red. Something about the color seemed to be missing this year.
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#FairyTales #ChildrensStory #ShortStory #BedtimeStories #KidsBooks #KidsStory

Zuletzt beendetes Buch: "A Spindle Splintered" von Alix E. Harrow, von der ich schon die "Once and Future Witches" gelesen habe. A feminist retelling of Sleeping Beauty. Nicht perfekt aber ich mochte alle weiblichen Charaktere und das Non-HEA Ende. Vier von fünf Krönchen 👸 #Märchen #FairyTales #SleepingBeauty #Fantasyromane #Bookstodon #AmReading #AlixEHarrow #FracturedFables

La Custode tra i petali di rose - Il Regno Nascosto nel Bosco Antico

https://ilboscodiviola.altervista.org/la-custode-tra-i-petali-di-rose/

#illustration #artist #illustrazionefiabesca #IllustrazioniDAutore #raccontiperbambini
#fairytale #fairytales #fantasy #Fairy #fantasia #epocavittoriana
#GoldenAgeOfIllustration #CicelyMaryBarker

fictional being, but a real-life companion

https://mylittlehawk.com/2026/09/19/fictional-being-but-a-real-life-companion/

Continuing the watery tart theme - 'Singing Pools' from my book Secrets Of Strangehollow: buff.ly/DVYahTc
#mermaid #folklore #fairytales #fantasyart

Continuing the watery tart theme - 'Singing Pools' from my book Secrets Of Strangehollow: buff.ly/DVYahTc
#mermaid #folklore #fairytales #fantasyart

"The Pitch" or "Genesis." Oil Paint on two by three foot Board Canvas. 1995. #art #arting #artwork #artworks #painting #paintings #oilpainting #oilpaintings #oilpainter #oilpaint #workinginoils #arts #artistic #baseball #baseballplayer #baseballplayers #bible #thebible #pitch #genesis #booksofthebible #allegory #myth #mythology #fable #fables #favoritefables #fracturedfairytales #fairytale #fairytales #philosophy

GMBC ep03 - From Princess Nuns to Demon Chickens: Unpacking T Kingfisher's Nettle and Bone #TKingfisher #nettleandbone #fairytale #fairytales #fairytalestory #redwombatstudios #darkfantasy #witchyreads #FolkFantasy #FairyTaleFantasy #Fantasy #fantasyreads #books #bookstagram #booktok #ttrpgpodcast https://www.k-squareproductions.com/gmbc

It's that time of the year again; the first essay I assign in my critical thinking composition course deals with a single question: "Is Little Red Riding Hood a horror story?"

Where do you land on this?

#writing #college #fairytales #horror #prompt

The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/02/cristina-campo-unforgivable-fairy-tales/

The Paradox of Knowing Who You Are and What You Want: Cristina Campo on Fairy Tales, Time, and the Meaning of Maturity

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/09/02/cristina-campo-unforgivable-fairy-tales/

Some of Violet Jacob’s works are available to download as free ebooks via @gutenberg_org

4 novels: Flemington, The Sheep-Stealers, Irresolute Catherine, & The Interloper;
2 poetry collections: Bonnie Joann, and Other Poems, & Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus;
The Golden Heart, & Other Fairy Stories

8/8

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/7709

#Scottish #literature #Scots #Scotslanguage #19thCentury #20thcentury #WomenWriters #VioletJacob #novels #poetry #shortstories #shortfiction #fairytales

The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey review – time stands still at 3.43am in fringe fairytale
By Mark Fisher

Summerhall, EdinburghAngele and Malcolm Galea’s two-hander cycles through grief and sorrow as a broken-hearted hero is trapped in purgatory

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/29/the-trials-of-magnus-coffinkey-review-summerhall-edinburgh

#Edinburghfestival2026 #Fairytales #Theatre #Books #Culture #Edinburghfestival #Stage #Summerhall #TheGuardian #MarkFisher

Fairytales pending: the fringe musicals hoping to live happily ever after
By Chris Wiegand

Edinburgh has given festival audiences a look at two long awaited musicals – Bliss and Disenchanted! – with both aiming to now scale up their spectacle

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/aug/28/fairytale-musicals-edinburgh-run-bliss-disenchanted-the-hit-musical-pleasance

#Edinburghfestival2026 #Musicals #Stage #Culture #Edinburghfestival #Theatre #Fairytales #Books #Festivals #TheGuardian #ChrisWiegand

🚗🤴 In a plot twist that sounds like a rejected soap opera script, a Belgian car salesman swaps his clunker for a crown thanks to a spit test 🧬. CNN, always on the hunt for hard-hitting #journalism, dedicates precious pixels to this fairy tale brought to you by Ancestry.com. 🏰👑
https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/22/europe/prince-belgium-secret-son-scli-intl #carnews #soapoperastory #ancestryDNA #fairytales #HackerNews #ngated

Pages 8 & 9 of my One Copy #zine I'm working on.

"Dragons who steal from the people and hoard wealth find themselves defeated. The Wealth is redistributed to the people."

#write #zines #dragons #fairytales #capitalistsAreTheDragons #WealthRedistribution

உக்ரேனிய நாடோடிக் கதைகள் (Ukrainian Folk Tales In Tamil )

A collection of Ukrainian folk tales translated to Tamil.

தொகுப்பாசிரியர்: விளதீமிர் போய்கோ

மொழிபெயர்ப்பாளர்: நா. முகம்மது செரீபு, எம். ஏ.

ஓவியர்: வா. கொர்திய்சுக்

பதிப்பாசிரியர்கள்: எவ்கேனி கனவாலவ், வித்தாலி ஃபுர்னிக்கா

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J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/11/j-r-r-tolkien-on-fairy-stories/

J.R.R. Tolkien on Fairy Tales, Language, the Psychology of Fantasy, and Why There’s No Such Thing as Writing “For Children”

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/08/11/j-r-r-tolkien-on-fairy-stories/

cover for The Arabian Night's Entertainments by Andrew Lang, H. J. Ford, 1898

Love the way they made book covers in 1898. I haven't read all these stories so I don't know if the cover is illustrating a fairy tale. I love this demon flying over the wonderful city at night.

It's available a lot of places including here:
https://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00086670/00001/images/0

#art #illustration #bookCovers #old #gold #blue #demon #angel #wings #fairyTales

As an anthropologist (as a folklorist) I am far more interested in noticing, treasuring, and finding beauty in things than in accomplishing any particular goal. As an anthropologist (as a strategist) I have the skill set for goals. And as an anthropologist (as an analyst) I do love to articulate a deeper meaning, to pull things apart and weave them back together. But from childhood, reading fairy tales (oral tradition, folklore), what nourished me was the inarticulable, the mystery, the don't-try-to-explain-this, the self-evident depth or paradox, the "it is" or "t'was thus."

Long before I was an anthropologist I considered myself an archivist. From childhood I collected material culture embodying meaning, from my life and from those around me: I considered it a contribution, to preserve things of meaning for others. And literally, what is archiving but treasuring?

I long to treasure everything. #folklore #anthropology #oralTradition #academicChatter #fairytales #archiving

https://www.magmoe.com/3148971/entertainer/2026-08-08/ 【岩橋玄樹くん】ファンクラブFairytales 5周年💖謎のスイーツ作ってお祝いしてみた🍰 #5thAnniversary #5周年 #entertainer #Fairytales #johnnys #King&Prince #sweets #お祝い #お菓子作り #ジャニーズ #スイーツ #ピンク #ファンクラブ #岩橋玄樹 #恋ピンク #濃いピンク #白玉粉

I mean, think about it; the emperor from China that favours the golden fake bird above the real nightingale, the pig farmer, a prince in real life, posing, to find out a princess really wants him or just his money, the girl with the firesticks dies, because that is what happens, people! The little mermaid dies too because of course her prince likes her, but he will marry a princess that is rich of course. It goes on. This man is all about keeping it real. A delight! #fairytales #Andersen

Third toot on reading the Hans Christian Andersen orgininals to my five year old: having a blast, really. Andersen really, really, hates everything and everyone that is fake and hates society. Tonight was The emperor's new clothes. Several times, several, it said: 'Because it wasn't there.' He really has to say it, cannot hold himself back. Such fun. You hear him say: 'Because it wasn't fucking there!' #fairytales

A griffin is a creature with the body of a lion and the head and wings of an eagle. One of its feathers is said to cure the blind and its claw has medicinal properties. redbubble.com/shop/ap/3708... #MythologyMonday #folklore #mythology #art #Fairytales #wallart #artnouveau #fineart #giftidea

Deva and Gryphon - Gustave Mor...

I must say this re-reading of the original 'sad' Andersen #fairytales is... envigorating? Just now me and my five year old daughter did The Little Mermaid. I was hesitant, but told her it doesn't end well and when she asked how, I told her the ending. Then I read it to her. She was full of attention. 'Is she dead now?' (We had already read The little match girl.) To me, it just felt *good* to read a cautionary tale like 'don't give up your whole heart, soul (body!) and life for anyone'.

Aschenbrödel, 1902 - Lafaire & Goldfarb AK

https://www.ebid.net/uk/for-sale/aschenbr%c3%b6del-1902-lafaire-goldfarb-ak-224522052.htm

#Aschenbrödel #Cinderella #FairyTales

Beauty and the Blade (The Talented Fairy Tales)

"A Beauty and the Beast retelling filled with secrets, found family, and slow-burn romance"

Sale: $4.99 to FREE

by S.C. Grayson
Rating: 4.2/5 (530 Reviews)

#fantasy #romance #fairytales #gaslamp #slowburn #booksky #books #magic #london #foundfamily

Beauty and the Blade (The Tale...