The topicality of the research is due to the need for a comprehensive disclosure of textual cohesive mechanisms in the organization of English multimodal literary fairy tales. The purpose of the research is to manifest and characterize the structural and semantic aspects of cohesion in English multimodal literary fairy tales. The objective of the research is to establish the dominant structural and semantic aspects of contaminated cohesion in the semantic space of sentences in English multimodal literary fairy tales written by Philip Ardagh. The results of the research: the structural and semantic aspects of contaminated cohesion are identified by means of detailed analysis concerning sentences, conjunction, substitution and ellipsis in the semantic space of the text in English multimodal literary fairy tales including micro inclusions (36%), meso inclusions (46%) and macro inclusions (18%). The conclusions of the research: in the text of English multimodal literary fairy tales the structural aspect of contaminated cohesion is based on the actualized meaning of sentences, conjunction, substitution and ellipsis owing to the correlation between verbal component and nonverbal component; the semantic aspect of contaminated cohesion concerns the visualization of verbal meaning in sentences, conjunction, substitution and ellipsis.