Charles Folkard's Illustrations for British Fairy and Folk Tales

Charles James Folkard (6 April 1878 – 26 February 1963) was an English illustrator. He worked as a conjuror before becoming a prolific illustrator of children’s books. In 1915, he created Teddy Tail, a popular cartoon character who ran in the Daily Mail newspapers for decades. Folkard is well known for his work on The Arabian Nights, Grimms' Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables, and Pinocchio. (Wikipedia)
The brighter for that veil around it and above it was the mossy nest over which Teel now stood still. Here it was that the Fairies of the Wood, who stole her, held his little Clary cradled. Here she was sleeping happily, in form not a day older than when she was lost, soothed by singing from a choir of green Wood-Fairies, who were her attendants. But when Teel snatched her up, and fell to kissing her, the Fairies sang :
                                "Playfellow Clary, nice to steal,
                                You must go home with Father Teel.
                                Clary will be our playfellow for good
                                 If father don't leave his Gold Shoes in the wood."




At the heat of day the giant's daughter felt her father's breath burning her back. "Put thy finger in the filly's ear, and throw behind thee whatever thou findest in it." He got a splinter of grey stone, and in a twinkling there were twenty miles, by breadth and height, of great grey rock behind them. The giant came full pelt, but past the rock he couldnot go.
" The tricks of my own daughter are the hardest things that ever met me," said the giant ...


 Melilot with her three wonderful neighbours, Dock, Dodder, and Squill, hopping arm in arm behind her, and getting a good hold on the stones with their web feet, began to climb the mountain. Rain still poured out fo the sky; runlets flooded their path, and the great cataract roared by their side.