Holiday Stamps from around the World

ISSUE 172 - April 4, 2025 - Stamp News Online Magazine

April

International Children's Book Day, Wednesday, April 2 and birthday of Danish author Hans Christian Andersen (2 April 1805 - 4 August 1875).
The following stamp collection illustrates children's books and reminds us of the many wonderful books available to our young readers. Learn about the origins of fairy-tales, their authors and illustrators. Included in this collection are stamps from Estonia: Pokuland (a fairy-tale), Germany: Hansel and Gretal, Great Britain: Winnie The Pooh, Poland: The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen, Portugal: The Maiden That Went To War, and many more.

1985 Australia

1985 Australia (Click to see larger stamp image.)
http://en.wikipedia.org - Blinky Bill, http://en.wikipedia.org - The Magic Pudding

1985 Australia

1996 Australia

1996 Australia
http://www.penguin.com.au - Animalia (top left - Lion)

2010 Belarus
Stamps are of a boy reading a book and a girl reading a book.

2010 Belarus FDC

2000 Cambodia

2010 Croatia

1983 Czechoslovakia
Mounted Messenger by Oleg K Zotov, Boy and Birds by Zbigniew Rychlicki, Three Young Negroes by Antonio P Dominguez, Hansel and Gretel Illustrations by Lisbeth Zwerger

1985 Czechoslovakia

1987 Czechoslovakia
Birds on a Nest by Elzbieta Gaudasinka

2001 Estonia - Pokuland (based on a fairy-tale by Edgar Walter)

2001 Estonia

2010 Estonia

1979 France - International Year of the Child

1961 Germany - Hansel and Gretel - Humanitarian Relief and Welfare Funds Stamps

1994 Germany

2010 Gibraltar
Children's books by Roald Dahl, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory", "Matilda", "The BFG", "The Twits"

2010 Gibraltar

2010 Great Britain

2010 Great Britain, Winnie The Pooh by A. A. Milne

Guernsey - Penny The Postie

2002 Ireland - The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

1974 Israel

1974 Israel

1974 Israel

2010 Jersey, How the Elephant got his trunk by Rudyard Kipling, The Hatter by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (pen name: Lewis Carroll)

2010 Monaco

2010 Montenegro

2010 Montenegro

1978 Netherlands

2002 New Zealand

2000 Palau

2005 Poland - The Little Mermaid and The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen

2005 Poland - The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen

2005 Poland - The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen

2010 Portugal - The Monkey Who Lost His Tail

2010 Portugal - Maiden That Went To War, Europa 2010 - Children's Book

2010 Romania

1992 Russia

2010 Russia

2010 Serbia (Click to see larger image.)

2000 Slovenia

2005 Switzerland

2010 Ukraine

1993 US (Click to see larger image.) Rebecca of Sunny Brook Farms,
Little House on the Prairie

1993 US The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (The Book)

2004 US Doctor Seuss - Seussville.com

2005 US (Click to see larger image.) Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

2010 Vatican City