Not sure why but I’m just in love with this series of weird little images.
I’m sure it’s a leftover from childhood, and from books like The Borrowers where everything is miniature, and you use an empty spool of thread as a table, etc – and you can see all of these objects in a totally different way because you are so small. My favorite part of Captain Kangaroo, for example, was the little family who lived in the bookshelves. Green Jeans Shmeen Jeans, I lived for those mini little people living their lives, hidden behind the big books. I had a great desire to be teeny-tiny when I was a little kid, like a miniature person who could huddle under any champignon with no problem.
oh, those are so sweet!
I’m like you – I always loved the cartoons that featured the mice or pixies or whatever living in their own tiny world alongside our own.
there’s also a book out – I just bought it this weekend and damme if I’ve forgot the title already – but it’s something like “Fairie Island” or somesuch and it’s just a series of pictures of tiny houses – with furniture and clothing and kitchens and even SHEET MUSIC that is all created out of natural materials (the sheet music, for example, is paper birch bark). Nothing is tarted up or painted up – you can tell (if you know your botany and look close) what the different things are.
ricki – oh man, that stuff is just MAGICAL to me!
I know just what you mean. Did you ever see The Friendly Giant when you were a kid? You would have had to be close to Canada because it was CBC… but I loved the beginning and ending when he would pull up the little miniature chairs close to the fire and invite you to sit in them. So charming. I could just imagine it. One of those, “I want to walk into that world” moments.
I’d forgotten all about that small family in Captain Kangaroo.
Did you hate The Town Clown as much as I did? I used to get INFURIATED because he didn’t talk. What’s up with that, Town Clown?
Lisa – ha!!! I forgot about that stupid clown!
Missy – you know – what you describe sounds VERY familiar – but I don’t know how I would have seen it, growing up where I did. Maybe it went into syndication eventually??