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Favorite Tales of Monsters and Trolls

Nowadays, whenever i blog about politics, i feel i need to make up for it with some non-political stuff. So here's some scans from a book i loved as a young kid: Favorite Tales of Monsters and Trolls.

Here's the cover:

Here's some pictures from the title page. You know right away it's gonna be awesome.

Now for the first story, which was Three Billy Goats Gruff

Those last two pictures were part of a two-page spread, but i didn't want to shrink them down so i broke them up separately.

Next is The Trolls and the Pussycat, wherein a traveler with a pet polar bear stays at a farmhouse that is plagued by trolls (more like goblins, says the D&D nerd). They think that the sleeping polar bear is just a cute cat, until they disturb it.

The book cover depicts a scene from this story, and here's another.

Finally, The Stone Cheese. Three brothers are sent into the forest to chop some wood. The older two are scared away by a giant troll, but the youngest pretends to be super-strong, and proves it by squeezing a piece of cheese that he claims is a rock.

I think the book had a cool art style, but what i love most is that in a lot of the scenes there's just this undercurrent of chaos going on. The strange chickens, the weird houses in all the trees, and all the little creatures running around that have nothing to do with the story. Crazy stuff.