Canadian Drainwater's Buttpirate Adventures

I got Mercer Mayer's Little Monsters as a gift from my uncle when I was like 5.



As I kid I remember loving pictures like that. Full established shots with various happenings going on. Little Monsters was one book I couldn't put down because it was full of art like that. The inside covers ( or inserts ) of each book had the entire town with the people doing their daily activities.

That's probably why as a kid I enjoyed pictures like that. In a way you make up your own story of what going on just by looking all over the page. Also as a kid I had one of those Lego Idea Books, it was just page after page of different things built with Legos that were more than I could build.

After paging through it I saw a story within the book. It started with designs in the Castle System then gradually moved to the Town System to the Space System, so I made up a story to go with the images of how civilization advanced.

Stupid shit, but just with images kids can come up with their own ideas.

I also remember when the Book Van or whatever would visit the school where we could purchase books. My mom got upset when all I'd get are Choose Your Own Adventure books or my personal favorite Activity Books full of isometric mazes, word games, connect the dots, and find 10 things in a picture type stuff.

As far as shit traumatizing me, it was mostly movies. I remember in school we watched a shitty animation about some little girl and a kangaroo lost in a forest or something and some monster was chasing them. Then there was the Alice in Wonderland mini-series of the 80s that got too real when it got to Through the Looking Glass.

And of course the Punky Brewster haunted woods story that still left some scars.

OH! You're talking about Dot and the Kangaroo. The Bunyip song! My brother and sister and I loved that cartoon and we would go Bunyip hunting. (although we called it The Bunyon)






What got me was The Witches. The mouse changing scenes....God that movie scared me.

Fuck that first video, it just gave me chills even though it's been 30 years later and I can obviously see the animation is crap, lol

That was it, I remember that with the Bunyips face being etched in the cave " Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope Nope". I think that's what started my fear/obsession with caves as a kid. That along with Punky Brewster and Fraggle Rock ( when they'd go to scary caves )

Honestly though, I think kids love being scared, creeped out, and curious about things like that. I remember when Goosebumps was a thing in the 90s and was surprised kids loved that stuff. I don't even know if there's anything today that compares to the trauma we use to grow up with.

That's probably one reason Scooby Doo lasted so long. Use to love the monster of the week and all the creepy locations they went to. Was better when there were secret passages and stuff like that.

I have this book lying around somewhere from when I was little- Funny Farm I think it was called.
For some reason, there was this one illustration that's stuck with me,
a horse is having a nightmare, he's seeing himself as this giant, hairy blue horse.
I'll scan it, if I can find it, I can't seem to find the illustrations online.

Okay this is totally off topic, I'm not even sure if it counts as a fairy tale, but I just ran into another gem from my childhood:
This stop-motion animated series. There's no talking so you'll enjoy it no matter what language you speak. It's about two guys who cause and solve problems. Just watch for yourself, it's fun

There's shitload of other videos of them on youtube, though the newer ones (after 2000) aren't as good. (the video I posted is from 1984)

Oh lord, I remember this. Good times.
EDIT: I love how this thread turned into nostalgiafest.

Here's a collection of cool illustrations from 70's; https://www.flickr.com/groups/eyecandypool/

Can we talk about bad children's books? I once read some horrible hippy children book from the 70's. It had these rainbow colored, gourd-shaped aliens talking about new age mysticism or some shit to dirty-hippy adults and their children. They took the kids and parents on their space ship and visited some garden of eden like place and the hippies and the hippy-spawns started running around in the nude. You didn't see their dongers and asses, but they were nude and live in this eden garden with the new-age aliens.

It was so bizarre, but the illustration were nice.

This just inspire me to try create a mock work of SAK's candy claw. I'm thinking of redrawing one of her candy claw illustration trying to make it more appealing based drawings on you guys show so far.

What I'm going to do with it? Probably going to do a small survey, print both of them and show them to kids, trying to get which one they find it appeal the most.

I had a book in which dragons and gnomes lived in neighboring lands and tension got to a point where they started waging war against each other. The illustrations were these massive two-pagers which described every little unit of the two armies and how what ridiculous kinds of weapons they had. The pages of that book were enormous (or they seemed to be at the time, haha). They were kind of like Lafinman described; you could look at them for a long time, but so many things were going on in one painting, you'd always find something interesting to look at. I love those kinds of images in books.

Aren't there only small preview-like images for candy claw though?

This, this is the book I'm trying to remember. What was it called?

There are, but I'm going to do my own rendition based on one of the previews. What I'm planning to do is going to local library and show it to kids over there.

Your description did sound familiar. I believe it's called "dragonland" in English, by Tony Wolf. I scanned a few pages (because the book is still on my shelf, haha):

Hands down my favorite kids' book illustrations are from the version of Thumbelina illustrated by Susan Jeffers. Details. Details everywhere.

Fucking cowboy boots, really?



A goblin fused into a Troll.

What kind of cowboy boots are those? They look like they'd belong to a cowboy clown, let alone a real cowboy; they're really impractical looking.

Did she shrink and work out her legs? She can't even be consistent when drawing herself for fuck sake!


and as for this:
This art style seemed very familiar to me (the mice, the turtle, even the corn) so I googled the artist name and saw another childhood memory!
This one:

Yet another example of great children book illustration! I have no idea what it was about, what the name of the book is, I don't even know if I had this book at home or saw it in kindergarten, but I remember the artwork!
I love how the grasshoper has sports shoes on. Or the googles on the otter.

It is just me or are her feet in profile view while her upper body is at a slight angle

not a children's book, but i remember stumbling onto the soviet's winnie the pooh knock-off (seriously, the soviet union had a goddamn knock-off for everything), vinnie puh. and yea, it's animated. sue me.

i really like the style tho, and if winnie the pooh had been animated in this, i'd prolly have watched it.
here's some stills:



here's the actual animation:



i'm a total sucker for crayon backgrounds tho. yoshis's island was a game with huge impact on me as a kid for that reason.

Good lord, I love that thing!
It is not a knock off though, it is a different Winnie the Pooh adaptation from the books.
Personally I prefer the Russian version of Pooh, because he still seems childish but a little more clever than American Pooh.