Sunday, 13 July 2025

Tall Tales

 

2002: Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories  - Centenary of Publication (Artist - Izhar Cohen)
 

How the Camel Got His Hump - How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin. 

The Beginning of the Armadillos - The Crab That Played With the Sea

Kipling was a prolific writer and poet and one could spend some time on the Kipling Society website where all his short stories appear both by theme and date.

1979: International Year of the Child (Design - Kass Janos)
Tom Thumb, no bigger than a thumb, seems to spend his adventurous life being swallowed by various animals, here he has encountered the hungry wolf.  But Tom has a plan and talks to the wolf from its stomach and tricks him to take him home,  All is well in the end.

The Fisher and the Goldfish but this fish is not golden in Hungary's colour scheme but is provided with a golden crown. Alexander Pushkin told the story in verse.

Sunday Stamps theme - Stories, Folk Tales - See It On A Postcard 

4 comments:

viridian said...

Thank you for sharing! I like all of these.

violet s said...

It has been a long time since I've read some of these folk stories. They really are very clever.

Mail Adventures said...

I guess folk stories are similar everywhere. We have a "Tom Thumb" too: En Polzet.

I really like the style on the Hungarian illustrations!

marina said...

You have some awesome stamps here!!! I have never seen any of these. I like them all, their designs and styles. Love the orange wolf and the blue goldfish.