Miss Clara's Lovely Fairy Tale Illustrations

Twelve Dancing Princesses

Princess and the Pea

The Snow Queen

For more info on these beautiful books, read this article from Barefoot Books.

To see more gorgeous illustrations from these fairytale books, click this link.

Jellycat's New Plush Storybook Dolls

Jellycat's adorable Red Riding Hood plush doll stands 12 inches tall. She wears a flowery blue folk costume, with red felt cake and cheerful striped stockings. Her red hair is tied back in frizzy wild pigtails.

The Jellycat "Snow White" Fairytale Folk Doll also has frizzy pigtails (hers are black, in keeping with her storyline). She wears a red, white and blue flowery dress, plus a black jacket. I love that she too has striped stockings!

The Sleeping Beauty Fairytale Folk Tale Plush doll has frizzy blonde hair, a cute burgundy apron, lace-trimmed peasant dress, and oversized shoes.

I'm hoping Jellycat will also make Beauty from Beauty and the Beast, and Cinderella soon!

Cute Reversible Plush Fairytale Dolls

This adorable reversible Snow White plush doll was made in Belgium. She turns over to become a cheerful "wicked" queen.

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The company, Lilliputiens, also makes a reversible Little Red Riding Hood that changes into a smiling grandmother. She's also available on eBay.

Laughing Elephant's New Alice in Wonderland Picture Book

This book is a reproduction of an Alice in Wonderland book that was drawn by Italian mid-century illustrator Libico Maraja.

It's a shape book meant for small children, but I think I'll store this exquisite new book carefully on a high shelf away from children's grubby little hands.

The Narnia Cookbook for Fantasy Themed Foods

"From Turkish Delight to Gooseberry Fool - Over 150 Recipes Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia."

I absolutely have to have this in my cookbook collection. I throw a lot of fantasy and fairy tale themed parties, so I'm sure this will come in handy quite often.

Recipes include:

• Breakfast with Trumpkin the Dwarf — Fire roasted pavenders
• Tea with Tumnus the Faun-soft — Boiled eggs and sugar-dusted tea cake
• Snack with the White Witch — Turkish Delight
• Dinner with the Beavers — Fried trout and homemade sandwich bread
• Dessert from Father Christmas — Plum pudding and Christmas biscuits

Toadstool Play Tent for Outdoor Fairy Fun This Summer

I'm thinking that this toadstool play tent would be perfect for my fairy tea parties I plan to throw this summer. I'd set it outside for the children (dressed in fairy and pixie costumes, of course) to play in, while their parents enjoy fairytale-themed libations.

This adorable mushroom tent is also available at Costco and on Amazon.

Lovely New Fairytale Books

Calla editions are special hardcover reproductions from Dover Publications. This version of Cinderella lovingly reproduces Arthur Rackham's original illustrations. One plate is in full color, nine are in three-color, and the rest are in black and white. For another look at Rackham's illustrations for Cinderella, see this blog entry.

The Calla edition of Sleeping Beauty with Arthur Rackham's illustrations will be available in March 2013.

Also see this exquisite Arthur Rackham Sleeping Beauty edition by Seattle-area publisher Laughing Elephant.

The Calla edition of Twelve Dancing Princesses came out in September. It features the art of my very favorite children's illustrator, Kay Nielsen.

Ruth Sanderson draws lavishly detailed, lush oil paintings which are then turned into children's fairy tale book illustrations. Her newest book, Rose Red and Snow White comes out in just a couple of weeks.

Check out the phenomenal paper sculptures in The Fairy-Tale Princess. The castle on the cover is stunning, and wait til you see the paper wedding cake and paper forest depicted within!

I absolutely have to add this Sleeping Beauty pop-up book to my collection. (I collect both fairy tales and pop-up books, so when I see both in the same package, I get pretty excited!) It's been so popular, it's already out of stock on Amazon.