"Swiftness is a great virtue in the fairy tale. All we need is the word "Once..." and we're off." Pullman has gone back to the origins of these well known stories. They are back to the dark, morality tales they once were. I was surprised by how many of these tales are much more violent than n...
Pullman strips the traditional fairytales right back to their core. This was a lovely read, and the little pieces at the end of each tale, where the author gives a little information about the original tale and any changes he may or may not have made, gives real context to the stories, making them e...
Enchanting collection, some stories I knew from childhood, some stories I read as an adult in Europe, some stories that were new to me. Pullman's introduction is fun to read in itself. The stories as collected and told are lots of fun, and themes emerge, parallels to mythology become apparent, and...
My mom never read me anything before bed... Half of this stories were new to me, so I decided to read myself a story before going to sleep. I even had some cookies and milk ^^ Yeah, kinda old for that but I loved it.
Note: I am reading a kindle version of the 1922 publication of this collection titled Grimm's Fairy Stories. It is equal to 144 pages long and has 28 of the Grim Brother's tales. The Kindle version does not have the illustrations so obviously I can not comment on them.This is the first time I've act...
Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Versionby Philip Pullman Classic tales and some very uncommon unknown ones as well. 1. The frog King, The cat and mouse set up house, the boy who left who to find out about the shivers, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, etcLike reading about the ...
Oh Philip.Pullman is an author that has enraged me with every book of his I've read (this is number 3) yet I keep going back to him. I love Fairy Tales. Fairy tales are a little crazy and very messy and Pullman, in his wisdom, has decided that this simply wont do. In my opinion he has removed any h...
Hm. I thought I would like this book, but realized it wasn't doing it for me when I kept making up reasons why I should read my other book instead. I think that I was a little disappointed by the ho-hum endings of some of these stories. I will stick to Adam Gidwitz's take on these yarns.
Hansel and Gretel had a much more challenging life than I realized. I knew they got lost in the woods and were almost cooked and eaten by an evil old witch, but what I did not know was that it was their own mother's idea to abandon them in the woods to begin with. Crimony, talk about emotional sca...
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