from The Sesame Street Dictionary
The Sesame Street Storybook Alphabet
"The Brave Little Tailor" is a Brothers Grimm fairy tale about a tailor who boasts of killing seven flies with one blow and, as a result, ends up mistaken for a giant killer.
References[]
- The story was depicted in The Sesame Street 1977 Calendar, illustrated by Michael J. Smollin, with Grover in the title role.
- Tom Cooke illustrated the fable in The Sesame Street Storybook Alphabet, also with Grover in the title role.
- Joe Mathieu illustrated one panel of the story for The Sesame Street Dictionary. As a means of defining the word "kill," an Anything Muppet is shown having swatted seven flies who lie dead on the floor.
Connections[]
- Mickey Mouse played the title character in a 1938 cartoon short
- David Alan Grier played the title character in the animated HBO series Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)
- James Earl Jones played King Dakkar in the animated HBO series Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (1995)
- Peter Ustinov narrated the story to accompany a suite composed by Tibor Harsányi (1950)