August 2020 Wallpaper: Coffee Break
Shaenon: For some reason I love drawing characters with beverages.
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As a bonus, you’ll get this likewise beverage-themed wallpaper from the archives:
Channing: Ah, Renard looks so relaxed. So different than his strip-current state.
A moment of peace for Renard…#12 isn’t with him, making it extra peaceful.
Good to see Reynard get at least a brief moment of peace there.
Hey, does anyone have a list of the stories the chapter titles come from? I only know a few.
Don’t have ’em all on tap, but this last one is from “Fox in Socks.”
Lesse now…
-Cowardly Lion: Oz (duh)
-Borrowers: The Borrowers
-Wild Things: Where the Wild Things Live
-I Can Fly: ???
-Dead Dogs: ???
-Big Bad Wolves: Various fairy tales, especially Little Red Riding Hood
-Tin Soldiers: The Tin Soldier
-Brave Little Toasters: ???
-And All the Lovely Ladies: ???
-Come Swing From My Branches: The Giving Tree
-If I Ran the Zoo: ???
-Once and Future: The Once and Future King
-Choose: ???
-A Wrinkle in Time: A Wrinkle in Time
-Railway Children: The Railway Children
-My House is Me: ???
-My Brother Sam is Dead: Sam I Am?
-The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
-Grillo Parlante: ???
-Mixed-Up Files: The Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (I think that’s spelled right?)
-Looking Glass Land: Through the Looking-Glass
-Can’t Catch Me: The Gingerbread Man
-What Big Teeth: Little Red Riding Hood again
-Purple Waves: The American National Anthem
-Yes, Virginia: Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus
-Fun for Some: ???
-Ghosts I Have Been: ???
-Sure as You’re Born: ???
-Unsinkable: The Unsinkable Molly Brown/Something about the Titanic
-The Hundred Dresses: The Hundred Dresses
-Angry with the Sky: ???
-Figgs and Phantoms: ???
-The Iron Man: The Iron Giant
-Green Noah: ???
-Swiftly I Glide: ???
-A Life in the Woods: My Side of the Mountain?
-The Dreadful Future: ???
-Muddle Duddled Fuddled Wuddled Fox: Fox in Socks
Feel free to correct me on any of these.
Thanks, Cheshire777! A few I think I know
Grillo Parlante: Pinocchio (Grillo Parlante is ‘talking cricket’ in Italian)
Sure As Your Born: The Unicorn (song) by the Irish Rovers
Choose: Choose Your Own Adventure series
“My House Is Me” is a line from The Big Orange Splot, by Daniel Pinkwater.
There is a book called The Brave Little Toaster.
Also, the correct title for the Maurice Sendak book is Where the Wild Things Are.
As for “Purple Waves”, I think you may be conflating the lyrics “Purple Mountains’ Majesty” and “Amber Waves of Grain” from the song America the Beautiful (which is not the US National Anthem, though it would be a better anthem than the Star-Spangled Banner, IMHO).
Atch, you’re right, my bad.
I’d go out on a limb and say it’s probably from “The Westing Game,” Ellen Raskin.
“And All the Lovely Ladies,” probably a Gordon Lightfoot song.
“Angry With the Sky,” “Bartholomew and the Oobleck.”
“The Hundred Dresses,” a novel by Ellen Raskin.
“Green Noah,” possibly from the series by Lucy M. Boston.
“Swiftly I Glide,” from a poem / song within Roald Dahl’s “The Fantastic Mr. Fox.”
“The Dreadful Future,” from “The Dreadful Future of Blossom Culp,” Richard Peck.
I’m pretty sure “I Can Fly” is from _Peter Pan_ by J.M. Barrie.
“Figgs and Phantoms” is from a book of the same title by Ellen Raskin. One of her weirder books, and that’s saying something.
“If I Ran the Zoo” is by Dr. Seuss.
“The Unicorn” was written by Shel Silverstein, not the Irish Rovers. It’s from his collection _Where the Sidewalk Ends_.
“The Brave Little Toaster” (subtitled “A Bedtime Story for Small Appliances”) was by Thomas Disch.
“A Life in the Woods” could be _Walden_ by Henry David Thoreau, or more likely a children’s book adaptation of it — I’ve heard of it, but can’t remember the title or author of the adaptation. Something like “Henry’s Cabin”, maybe?
“A Life in the Woods” is also the subtitle for Felix Salten’s “Bambi.”