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Shaun Tan is a sculptor living in Australia. This is a collection of photographs of his sculptures, each representing a fairy tale from the Grimm Brothers‘ collection.

Each sculpture is paired with a short bit from the fairy tale, and the sculptures are as grotesque (not in a bad way!) and as enchanting as the fairy tales they represent! 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

#MagicalMay #Brothers

For today‘s prompt I thought of the Grimm Brothers and their fairy tales and their story of The Twelve Brothers which made me think of the sculpture in this very cool book that someday, I need to own.😍

Had to read this one again for the bone prompt! Shaun Tan‘s sculptures are so perfectly horrific alongside snippets from Grimms‘ Fairy Tales. I can‘t get enough! ☠️

#scaryscavengerhunt #withboneinthetitle
#nontheme #teamslaughter #scarathlon
#chillingphotochallenge #bones

“She put her key into the lock, and the door sprang open.
But what did she see when she entered?” 🗝

#chillingphotochallenge #horror
#teamslaughter #scarathlon

The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm inspire a series of sculptures by the talented artist-author. It's an art book and his take on familiar tales are beautiful.

This book was awesome! Sculptures made from fairy tales with excerpts in it from Grimm's. Of course this is my favorite sculpture!

#CoolBooks #witch

"Oh, Mother Trudy, I was so petrified. I looked through the window and didn't see you, but I saw the devil with a fiery head."
"Oho!" said Mother Trudy. "Then you've seen the witch in her proper dress. I've been wanting you here and waiting for a long time. Now you shall provide me with light!"

Tan's take on 2 Grimms' witches-on the left, very familiar from Hansel and Gretel & on the right & less familiar to me, Mother Trudy.

#CoolBooks #dream

"I will tell you a dream I have had," she answered. "I was walking alone in a wood and I came to a solitary house where not a soul was to be seen. A cage was hanging on the wall of one of the rooms, and in it was a bird which cried"

'Turn back, turn back, though bonnie bride,
Nor in this house of death abide.'

It reappeared the same words twice. This was only a dream, my love!"

Tan's take on Grimms' The Robber Bridegroom.

#CoolBooks #maiden

"At midnight, as the king, the gardener, and the priest watched, the maiden came out of the bushes, walked over to the tree, and ate one of the pears with her mouth, while an angel in white stood next to her. ..."

The Maiden Without Hands isn't a Grimms' fairy tale that I'm familiar with but Shaun Tan's depiction called out to me. (Yes, I may indeed show every picture in my library book for this fairy tale photo challenge!)?

#CoolBooks #prince ?

"I'm going to tell you what to do," said the fox to the prince. "If you go straight ahead, you'll eventually come to a castle. ..."

In the Grimms' Fairy Tale The Golden Bird, the youngest prince is kind to the fox unlike his older brothers and so the fox shares the secrets to obtaining the golden bird. Lesson? Always be kind to animals. ?❤️

Shaun Tan's depiction with the Fritz Kredel illustration of the same scene.

#CoolBooks #brother

"Oh, we know you found the Water of Life," said the two wicked older brothers, "but we're the ones who've received the reward for all your trouble. You should have been smarter and kept your eyes open. We took the water from you when you fell asleep..."

There's 3 brothers in The Water of Life, 2 are bad & 1 is good. I like the contrast of Fritz Kredel's illustration in my Grimms' Fairy Tales with Shaun Tan's interpretation.

#CoolBooks #father

"Once upon a time there was a king who had twelve daughters, each one more beautiful than the next. They slept together in a large room where their beds stood side by side, and in the evening, when they went to sleep, the king shut and locked the door. However, when he opened it in the morning, he would see that their shoes were worn from dancing, and nobody could discover how this kept happening."

A cool library book.

#CoolBooks

I picked the Grimm's fairy tale, The Twelve Brothers for the #coffin prompt as there are 12 in it, for each of 12 brothers the King will have killed if their 13th child is a girl. I missed yesterday's prompt & there is also an enchantment or #curse in it as the 12 are changed into ravens. Looking for an image showing the coffins, I fell down the rabbit hole of the tagged book-such cool sculptures representing 75 Grimm's fairy tales.

#ManicMonday
🖼 Cover art is tagged book- an awesome read.
🖼 Juan Luna, quite the famous Filipino artist who was featured for exhibition here in SG.
🖼 My fave painting is this one by Juan Luna, La Mestiza.
🖼 National Gallery here in Singapore - the space is exquisite and it has the world‘s largest collection of Singapore and Southeast Asian art (over 8000 works). I am privileged to serve as a member of their Museum Education Advisory Panel.

A beautiful collection of sculpture based on the Grimm fairy tales. Now I want to go back and reread some of these, especially the more obscure ones.

This adorable painted rock was found at my library. After snapping this photo I made sure to re-hide it somewhere for others to find. It brightened our day!

#library #fall #October #Halloween #skull #librarian #pumpkin #paintedrocks #rock #prmd #spooky #festive #paintedrock #Maryland #bcpl

#fullmoonmayhem #hallowreads #raisingreaders 🌑

Thanks to @JulesG, I realized that my one year #Litsyversary is here too! The book tagged was my first post ever. I don't know the exact date, but I know it was in September and that I was recommending it for Dewey's 24 hour #Readathon.

Really neat book - the pairing of sculptures and modified fairy tales is interesting. But I prefer Tan's illustrations.

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Ever since picking up The Little Red Tree I have loved the illustrative style of Shaun Tan. So when this book appeared with Tan's distinctive take on illustrating the Grimm fairy tales there was no way I was leaving it in the bookshop.
Tan explains his work was "inspired by Inuit stone carving and pre-Columbian clay figurines. These exhibit a wonderful blend of whimsy and seriousness ... "
And I agree it's a beautiful collection.

This book is so great. I think even better than the Grimm fairy tales it's illustrating.

Finaly got Shaun Tan's amazing book, The Singing Bones, and I am so excited! His artwork is amazing. I think I first saw this book in a post by @elkeo and have wanted it eversince. Going to flip through while reading the fairy tales the statues are based upon. ❤♥

Shaun Tan's glorious sculptures for 75 Grimm's fairy tales makes this a beautiful piece of art.

Not quite as emotionally powerful as THE ARRIVAL or THE RED TREE, but a beautiful read nonetheless. Tan's sculptures and photos tend to play up the primal nature of the Grimm stories.

If you are a fan of sculpture work and Grimm fairy tales, then you have to check out this book!

Check out my full review here: http://ericarobynreads.blogspot.com/2017/03/book-review-singing-bones-by-shaun-t...

"People need stories. It's one of the things that make us who we are. We crave stories, because they make us more than ourselves, they give us an escape and they give us knowledge. They entertain us and they change us, as they have changed and entertained us for thousands of years."

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Unique. Gorgeous. A must for fairy tale and folk tale fans.

I love Shaun Tan. I can't wait to dig into this one!

A photo collection of sculptures based on Grimms' fairytales. What an artist! There is no way a flat picture can do this book justice. There is something about this art that just sings and this work feels like it is breathing.

Each sculpture is paired with a short paragraph about its corresponding Grimms' tale. For a slightly more in depth summary of each tale, there is an index in the back.

This would make a great coffee table book or gift 💯✔

Such whimsy! Grimm gets a makeover with these delicate and weird sculptures.

My dog is done with me ignoring her while I read this book and was grunting at me during this pic. This is neither a novel nor a graphic novel, but a lovely and haunting collection of Shaun Tan's clay creations alongside a snippet of the fairytale that inspired each piece.

#artbooks #fairytales #dogsoflitsy

Looking forward to the beauty of Shaun Tan's imagination and to his take on the Brothers Grimm

Worth the quick read. 75 short blurbs about a Grimm tale with an image of Shaun Tan's artwork on the opposite page.

FYI The Great Hunt by Wendy Higgins tells the story slightly differently. (Which I like bc I liked the older brother so yay for not killing your baby bro!)

So the last book I read was based on The Singing Bones story (coincidence?) and I had checked this out awhile ago. Mainly checked it out because Neil Gaiman wrote the foreward.

I thought the art in the book was amazing and interning. I wish there had been some more information about some of the stories but if you've read a lot of Grimm tales and know them definitely pick up the book.

Last minute Christmas shopping and I just so happened by a bookshop..... totally a coincidence 😁😁 but I found this!!! I LOVE Shaun Tan- The Arrival was gorgeous and his illustrations inspired by Fairy Tales promise to be just as beautiful ☺☺🖤🖤

This book contains pictures of simple sculptures, dramatically lit, to capture some of the Grimm stories. Despite their simplicity, the sculptures convey a lot of the emotion of the stories. This is more of an art book than anything. Each sculpture is on a spread that also includes parts of the stories they represent. A good book to browse through and enjoy

Night time reading!

Hello, gorgeous. I think today's #bookmail might just distract me from my previously scheduled plans...
Plus, I can never pass up a #fairytaleretelling and this looks like an amazing twist on a Grimm collection!

One of the best books I've read this year. I've always loved Tan but the physical art in this collection is beyond anything I might have expected. Absolutely incredible. If you or anyone you know likes fairy tales/the brothers grimm, this would be an excellent gift. You can see my full review, with photos over at wanderaven.

Happy Día de los Muertos, Littens!

Disclaimer: I'm biased--I love Shaun Tan; I will probably always love Shaun Tan. ? Beautiful, quirky book, which is exactly what you should expect from him. However, he takes to the three-dimensional here--which is a departure from his other books--yet it's every bit macabre for this unique take on the essence of Grimms' fairy tales. I loved this photograph taken for "Mother Holle." Happy Halloween! ?

The characters in Tan's reimagining of Grimms' fairy tales are so beautifully sculpted and out-of-this-world amazing. I had to share another. #scaretober #notofthisworld #octphotochallenge #allhallowsread

This book may not be scary, but the subject matter and art are definitely #allhallowsread appropriate.

This book is so gorgeous!! It's been making me happy all day. Shaun Tan's beautifully macabre sculptures pair perfectly with the Grimms' tales. #readingsnacks #booktober #allhallowsread #scaretober #fairytales

#BookMail to and to my folklore collection. Thanks @lindsayreads for the recommendation.

How could I possibly forget?! Another anticipated read on this gloriously gloomy day! I'm all a-tremble just standing in front of it.

BOOK MAIL!! 🎉🎊👏🏻🤓