Review: Seven Tales & other beasties

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Recently I received a marvellous new book of original fairy stories all the way from Canada, entitled "Seven Tales" by G.C. McRae, born of his abiding love of myth and folklore. I’ll be reviewing this book soon, but first alert you to a wonderful review by Belinda Calderone (Monash Fairy Tale Salon & Australian Fairy Tale Society). Meanwhile, why wait? Available here

Title: "Seven Tales"

Author: G.C. McRae

MacDonald Warne, 2015

ISBN: 978-0-9939183-4-6

267 pages

Published 7th October 2015

Fiction / Short Stories / Fairy Tales

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Beauty and the Beast by Warrick Goble 1913

This Spring in Australia, our theme in the fairy tale rings is Beauty and the Beast. I chanced upon Deedee Chainey's website image (above) today, dating to 1913, and below am posting a contemporary one by fellow fairy tale ring member here in Victoria, Lorena Carrington:

Beauty and the Beast by Lorena Carrington

Wonderwings fairy Marian Claire Lissant has sent in history of her grandfatherArthur Lissant, a dramaturge, who performed in a 1893 production of Beauty and the Beast, in which he played the Beast while Nellie Stuart was Beauty. Read all about it here