With love from Mummy and Daddy Xmas 1959, I was three and the words and pictures have never left me. A rock on which the rest of my life was built. The book records a moment in time and place, defined by stories, marked on every page by the history of the world, cousin to other stories in other plac...
Read a few of the fairy tales when I was young, but don't remember much about them. I can vaguely recall some farmer that kills his own mother, I thought that was really funny then (yes I have always had a strange sense of humor). Definitly on my TBR-pile.
Fantastic resource. 37 tales, 9 additional for "adults." Bonuses: Grimms biography, illustration bibliography, additional reading suggestions, preface to 1st and 2nd editions of Grimm's tales.According to the Preface: tales are from Grimm's 7th ed, published 1857. Selection includes tales that invol...
I read this entire thing...twice. Once when I was young and easily impressible (not quite sure why I chose to read this probably because it was a fat book and I seem drawn to those kind ) and then several years later. Some of these are extremely dark, creepy, odd, murderous, and downright depressing...
There are really a lot of great kids books out there these days and apparently no reason to revisit these old morbid tales, but for some reason it's very important for me to pass these classics on to Izzy. But there is still something so magical about these stories. I think children can handle a l...
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