Today Only: Fairy Tale and Fantasy Puzzles on Sale

You can save up to 50% on select Puzzles during Amazon's Gold Box Deal of the Day. I am sharing some of the fairy tale and fantasy related puzzles but there are several more available, hence the link to the entire sale. Once the quotas sell out, these will not be available at the sale prices. The Gold Box puzzles tend to sell out in my experience.

First up and pictured above is the Ravensburger College of Magical Knowledge - 500 Piece Puzzle which I admit I ordered myself. It is $6.99 today. I already own Sunsout Fairy Tales James Christensen 1500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle, which is my favorite Christensen painting for obvious reasons. After all, I devoted an entire week to it five years ago this week, see Christensen's Faery Tales Week: Day 1. But the College of Magics is another favorite and with a lower piece count, this is better for the younger members of the family.

Next up is the Melissa & Doug Wooden Bear Family Dress-Up Puzzle. I intended to share this at Christmas and now it is a lower price than it ever was during the holidays. No Goldilocks here, but those are the three bears. It is $8.99 today.

Finally, my youngest niece will be turning five in a few weeks and will soon be graduating to larger puzzles. Ravensburger Castle Fantasy - 200 Piece Puzzle is for her. She is sincerely convinced she will live in a castle when she grows up. Today it is $6.49.

Flights of Fantasy 2012 Calendar

The Flights of Fantasy 2012 Wall Calendar 12" X 12" features the work of James C. Christensen. My favorite of his, Faery Tales, is not in this year's calendar, but some other favorites are there.

There's also the Sunsout Fairy Tales James Christensen 1500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle if you like. I own it and love it. It was also featured on the blog, once upon a time, where we explored all of the fairy tales represented in the painting.

Christensen's Faery Tales Week: Day 8

This is an image heavy post, so I'll keep the rest brief. Here are the answers to the puzzle. Well, at least the ones I know!


Fairy Tale 1: Unknown... This one appears to flummox everyone. It doesn't appear to be Hop O' My Thumb or Tom Thumb which was my first instinct. All the tales represented here are supposed to be "well known" and I can't think of one that fits.


Fairy Tale 2: Cinderella


Fairy Tale 3: Jack and the Beanstalk


Fairy Tale 4: Sleeping Beauty


Fairy Tale 5: Beauty and the Beast


Fairy Tale 6: The Six Swans


Fairy Tale 7: The Brave Little Tailor (Someone guess Puss in Boots on this one thanks to my blurry picture, I think, because I can totally see that. In a better picture it's easier to see that the little figure is a man, not a cat, and that the giant is trying to squeeze a rock like a sponge.)


Fairy Tale 8: Little Red Riding Hood


Fairy Tale 9: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs


Fairy Tale 10: Rapunzel


Fairy Tale 11: The Frog Prince


Fairy Tale 12: Hansel and Gretel


Fairy Tale 13: Goldilocks and the Three Bears


Fairy Tale 14: Rumpelstiltskin


Fairy Tale 15: The Golden Goose


Fairy Tale 16: Little Mermaid


Fairy Tale 17: The Fisherman and His Wife


Fairy Tale 19: The Firebird


Fairy Tale 20: The Seven Ravens


Fairy Tale 21: Puss in Boots


Fairy Tale 22: Diamonds and Toads


Fairy Tale 23: The Emperor's New Clothes


Fairy Tale 24: This is the other fairy tale I'm unsure of. I've debated whether it's one of the tailors from Emperor's New Clothes, but I think not since there is one instead of two tailors and he is still somewhat separated from the action. He must be another tale, unless I've missed a reference to another fairy tale elsewhere in the puzzle. If anyone else sees one I've missed, let me know!

And either way, I'm not sure which fairy tale he would represent which just adds to the mystery... Perhaps someday someone will solve the mysteries for us...

Christensen's Faery Tales Week: Day 7

Today is the seventh and final day of identifying the fairy tales in James Christensen's Faery Tales. I plan to post the answers tomorrow or Monday to give everyone some extra time to see all the images and post their answers.

Well, I'll post answers to at least 22 of them since I'm unsure about two of them still myself as I mentioned on the first day. So far, no one including me knows which fairy tale is represented by the little boy carring the bundle, Fairy Tale 1 in my list.

And so I give you the final three fairy tale images:



Fairy Tale 22


Fairy Tale 23


Fairy Tale 24: This is the other fairy tale I'm unsure of. I've debated whether it's one of the tailors from Emperor's New Clothes, but I think not since there is one instead of two tailors and he is still somewhat separated from the action. He must be another tale, unless I've missed a reference elsewhere in the puzzle. If anyone else sees one I've missed, let me know!

This was easy in so many ways, but challenging with those final two tales!

For your convenience in copying and pasting into comments:

Fairy Tale 22:
Fairy Tale 23:
Fairy Tale 24:

Once again, the puzzle is quite affordable at Amazon and other retailers. It also comes in a 1,000 piece version from what I've seen online, but I preferred the 1,500. Alas, prints of the painting are much more expensive, but readily available at the James Christensen site among others. (I am an Amazon affiliate, as we all know by now, but am not affiliated with any of the other sites linked in this post.)

Christensen's Faery Tales Week: Day 6

Today is the sixth day of identifying the fairy tales in James Christensen's Faery Tales. I give you three new images:


Fairy Tale 19


Fairy Tale 20: Big hint: There are seven of these birds in the painting although only five appear in the image here. Two more are flying above these.


Fairy Tale 21


For your convenience in copying and pasting into comments:

Fairy Tale 19:
Fairy Tale 20:
Fairy Tale 21:

Once again, the puzzle is quite affordable at Amazon and other retailers. It also comes in a 1,000 piece version from what I've seen online, but I preferred the 1,500. Alas, prints of the painting are much more expensive, but readily available at the James Christensen site among others. (I am an Amazon affiliate, as we all know by now, but am not affiliated with any of the other sites linked in this post.)