Feliz dia da Mãe!

Jessie Willcox Smith, A Mother’s Reassurance (1908)

Ainda da tranquilidade...

Jessie Willcox Smith (Pinterest)

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«Quem vive na tranquilidade, que seja mais activo; quem vive na actividade deve encontrar tempo para descansar. Segue a natureza: ela te lembrará que fez o dia e a noite.»

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Séneca.

Para não procrastinar

Jessie Willcox Smith, The Scholar (1909 - via Pinterest)

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«The sooner it's done, the sooner it's history.»

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Midsomer Murders (2007 - link)

Contos de fadas

Jesse Wilcox Smith

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"The more one knows fairy tales, the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth."

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Marina Warner

Back to school...

D. Fernando de Saxe-Coburgo-Gotha, A Escola e o urso filósofo (1839-1843, Palácio Nacional da Ajuda - Link)

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Ozias Leduc, The Young Student (The Young Reader) (1894 - Link)

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Magnus Enckell, Elementary School (1899 - Link)

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Jessie Willcox Smith, Back To School Again (Link)

O Outono I

Jessie Wilcox Smith, ABC’s (1921).

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«When the autumn meets the tranquillity, there you can see the King of the Sceneries!»

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Mehmet Murat ildan

Ler

 James Jebusa Shannon, Racconti della giungla.

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Jessie Willcox Smith, Illustration of a mother and children reading.

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Lilla Cabot Perry, A fairy tale (1912).

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«Quem escreve constrói um castelo, quem lê passa a habitá-lo» - daqui.

Refúgios...

Elizabeth Shippen Green, Five Little Pigs.
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«The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency».

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Susan Allen Toth.
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Por mera curiosidade:

«The Five Little Pigs» é uma nursery rhyme:

This little pig went to the market.
This little pig stayed home.
This little pig had roast beef.
This little pig had none.
This little pig cried "Wee, wee, wee, wee!"
All the way home.

Há edições antigas e ilustradas, uma delas com uma história associada, editada cerca de 1880, pela McLoughlin Bros (New York). No entanto, não encontrei a edição que a menina e a senhora estão a ler, apesar de estar quase certa que é esta, de 1903, de Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871-1954) e de Jessie Wilcox Smith (1863-1935), intitulada «The book of the child» (imagem retirada daqui).

Maternidade

Pintura de Jessie Wilcox Smith, Mother and Child (1908)
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«Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life».
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Sófocles.

Crianças

Ilustração de Jessie Wilcox Smith, Reading.

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“It has been one long joyous road along which troop delightful children, happy children, sad children, thoughtful children, and above all wondering, imaginative children, who give to their charmingly original thoughts a delicious quaintness of expression. I love to paint them all.”
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Jessie W. Smith.