Dog Eat Doug by Brian Anderson for October 04, 2009

I never heard that part of the poem…

Me neither you two! Need to check on that!

Verse 2 is a new one, but far more interesting than verse 1!

Der Struwelpeter gave me nightmares when I was a kid.

I guess they don’t make nursery rhymes like they used to.

I’m scared of fire so I always got nightmares from this.

I agree with Dr. Toon, the original Grimm fairy tales were downright gruesome!

I still prefer the original version of Cinderella

Brian, brilliant animation. Looks very Tim Burtoniesque, fitting the theme perfectly.

fascinating artwork

There is a book you can buy at Amazon called ‘The Juniper Tree’. It contains 27 tales from Grimm translated by Lore Segal and Randall Jarrell, and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. These are the original versions, so don’t expect Disney. I enjoyed each one of the stories.

“Ring around the Rosy” is about the black plague. Gives a new meaning to “… all fall down.”