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    Friendly Fairies - Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle
    Friendly Fairies - Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle
    Friendly Fairies - Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle
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    Friendly Fairies - Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle

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    'Friendly Fairies' is written and illustrated by Johnny Gruelle. Gruelle (1880 - 1930), was an American artist and political cartoonist, as well as a children's book illustrator and author. Gruelle is best known for his 'Raggedy Ann Series', which chart the adventures of a little doll with red yarn for hair and a triangle nose. This particular story does not feature Raggedy Ann, instead presenting fifteen unique fairy stories, including 'The Three Little Gnomes', 'Mr and Mrs Thumbkins', 'The Wishbone', 'Tim Tim TamyTam' and 'A Change of Coats.' Together, the stories provide entertainment as well as moral lessons to their young audiences; to be kind to those you meet, to always be generous, and to help those that need it. Sought after by collectors, this re-printed edition showcases Gruelle's original text, further enhanced by his wonderful colour drawings, in order that the two may be fully appreciated by young and old alike.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateJan 27, 2016
    ISBN9781473365254
    Friendly Fairies - Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle
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    Johnny Gruelle

    Johnny Gruelle was a newspaper man who began writing stories about Raggedy Ann at the turn of the century, in order to entertain his ailing daughter, Marcella. He wrote many stories about the rag doll and her brother Raggedy Andy, including two collections, Raggedy Ann Stories and Raggedy Andy Stories. Though Mr. Gruelle died in 1938, his legacy is continued by his family and the millions around the world who have been touched by his simple messages of love, respect, and friendship.

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      Friendly Fairies

      Written and Illustrated

      by

      Johnny Gruelle

      Copyright © 2015 Pook Press

      An imprint of Read Publishing Ltd.

      Home Farm, 44 Evesham Road, Cookhill, Alcester,

      Warwickshire, B49 5LJ

      This book is copyright and may not be reproduced or

      copied in any way without the express permission of

      the publisher in writing.

      British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data.

      A catalogue record for this book is available from

      the British Library.

      www.pookpress.co.uk

      Contents

      Johnny Gruelle

      The Three Little Gnomes

      The Happy Rattle

      Recipe For A Happy Day

      Grandfather Skeeter-Hawk’s Story

      Crow Talk

      The Fairy Ring

      Mr. And Mrs. Thumbkins

      The Old, Rough Stone And The Gnarled Tree

      Sally Migrundy

      How Johnny Cricket Saw Santa Claus

      The Twin Sisters

      Little Thumbkin’s Good Deed

      The Wishbone

      Tim Tim Tamytam

      A Change Of Coats

      Biography

      of

      Johnny Gruelle

      Johnny Gruelle was born ‘John Barton Gruelle’, on 24th December 1880, in Arcola, Illinois, U.S.A. He was an American artist, political cartoonist, children’s book author, illustrator and songwriter. Gruelle is best known as the creator of Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy.

      At the age of two, Gruelle moved to Indianapolis, Indiana, where his father Richard Gruelle (1851 – 1914) came to associate and exhibit with the ‘Hoosier Group’ of painters. The ‘Hoosier Group’ was a group of Indiana Impressionist painters working in the late nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, primarily known for their renditions of the Indiana landscape. This early artistic upbringing had a great effect on the young Gruelle, with legendary figures such as the best-selling poet and author James Whitcomb Riley (1849 – 1916), being regular guests at their home.

      John Gruelle’s cartoons first appeared in print in the Indianapolis Star in 1905. From 1906 to 1911, his cartooning work appeared in many newspapers, usually signed as ‘Grue’, including the Toledo News-Bee, the Pittsburgh Press, the Tacoma Times, and the Spokane Press. After he beat 1,500 entrants to win a cartooning contest sponsored in 1911 by the New York Herald, Gruelle created Mr. Twee Deedle, which was in print from 1911 to 1914.

      One day, Gruelle gave his daughter (Marcella) a dusty, faceless rag-doll – which she had found buried in the attic. He drew a face on the doll and named her Raggedy Ann. Marcella played with the doll so much that Gruelle figured other children would like the doll too. This was the birth of Gruelle’s emblematic piece of Children’s literature.

      Gruelle’s Raggedy Ann doll’s U.S. Patent was dated 7th December 1915. Three years later, in 1918, the ‘PF Volland Company’ published Raggedy Ann Stories, and Gruelle went on to create an extremely popular series on the same theme, as well as a further collection of Raggedy Ann dolls. These became Volland’s major source of revenue. Gruelle was an extremely talented illustrator as well as author, and often had such confidence in his designs that he would create the final ink work without first sketching in pencil. One such example is his masterful, Nobody’s Boy - illustrations for Hector Malet’s Sans Famille.

      Gruelle’s life was struck by immense personal tragedy however. His beloved Marcella contracted diptheria and died at the age of thirteen. After this blow, family friends described Gruelle as:Possessed, with a heavy countenance, and … with the only thing he would bear to have near him as a reminder of Marcella a rag doll.

      Aside from the books and dolls, Gruelle also wrote songs on the ‘Raggedy Ann’ theme. His ‘Sunny Songs’ were set to music by William H. Woodin (1868 – 1934), who in 1933 was appointed Secretary of Treasury under Franklin Roosevelt. Gruelle lived in the Silvermine section of New Canaan, Connecticut, where the dolls were first mass-produced, and later moved his home and company to neighbouring Wilton, Connecticut. He spent a year in Ashland, Oregon, from 1923-24.

      Gruelle had a long-standing heart condition, and died from this ailment in Miami Beach Florida, on 8th January 1938. He was fifty-seven years old.

      The Three Little Gnomes

      A silvery thread of smoke curled up over the trunk of the old tree and floated away through the forest, and tiny voices came from beneath the trunk of the old tree.

      Long, long ago, the tree had stood strong and upright and its top branches reached far above any of the other trees in the forest, but the tree had grown so old it began to shiver when the storms howled through the branches. And as each storm came the old tree shook more and more, until finally in one of the fiercest storms it tumbled to the earth with a great crash.

      There it lay for centuries, and vines and bushes grew about in a tangled mass until it was almost hidden from view.

      Now down beneath the trunk of the fallen tree lived three little gnomes, and it was the smoke from their fire which curled up over the trunk of the old tree and floated away through the forest.

      They were preparing dinner and laughing and talking

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