“Rediscover Your Favorite Childhood Tales: 64 Illustrations That Evolved into Hilarious Adult Memes!”
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Imagine a world without story book illustrations. Our childhoods might have been a bit boring. The pictures bring the words to life. They inspire, educate and keep little minds engaged. Childrenâs book illustrations have evolved a lot over the years. They took off in the 19th century, when childrenâs literature became a genre of its own.
Back then, the pictures were first carved into wooden blocks. And those were then transferred onto the pages of the book. Sometimes they were coloured in by hand, adding even more “life” to the stories.
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It was during this time that the Grimmsâ Fairy Tales were brought to life. Childhood classics like âCinderellaâ, âHansel and Gretelâ and “Snow White” remain popular more than 200 years later. They’re still being translated into different languages, and adapted into plays and films around the world.
Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm published the first set of stories in 1812. You might be surprised to know that they weren’t actually written for children. According to the National Library of Scotland, ‘Kinder- und Hausmärchen’, as the first volume was originally called, was aimed more at scholars. It contained 86 fairy tales.
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The Grimms started collecting fairy tales “in the hope of discovering some essential truths about the cultural heritage of the common people,” reads the library’s site. They later edited the stories to make them more child friendly. And thanks to the brothers, we saw the emergence of children’s literature. The collection has since been translated into more than 160 languages.
