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Summary: Grimms' Fairy Tales
Review: Amanda Braschnewitz November 28,2003
Grimms' Brothers ( The fisher man and his Wife.) 30201000523082 If your were to catch a giant flounder, that was an enchanted prince who would grant you anything you wanted, what would you wish for? A fisherman and his wife lives in an old rusty shack on the beach. the fisher man went fishing on the dock and caught nothing but a giant flounder. The flounder was an enchanted princeand told the fisherman that if he would let him go he would grant him anything he wanted. The fisherman agreed, let him go and went home empty handed when he got back he told his wife and she told him to go to the flounder now and ask for a better home. So he did. And when he got backhis wife was standing inside with a surprised look on her face. The next night she wanted a castle, they got it. The niext night she wanted to be king, she got it. It went on and she wanted to go so far up the line that she finally got to the point where she wanted to be King of the universe. Did she make it up there ot did the fisherman and his wife lose it all?
(The straw, the coal, and the bean.)30201000528082
once the straw, coal, and bean talked it over they lwft the old witch's house and headed towars the creek. A witch was making a soup. Ahe had a bag full of beans for her soup. She put straw down, Coal on top of that. Then started them on fire. She put the beans in a pot of water. On bean, one straw, and on hot, fiery coal managed to escape from all of this. They decided to run away. They came to a creek and didn't know what to do. the straw came up with an idea. He would act as a bridge. the coal went first. he was so hot that he broke the straw in half. What happened next? Read to find out.
(The twelve Dancing Princesses.) 30201000523082
If you were a prince and was offered the chance to pick one of the princesses to be his wife, by finding why their shoes were danced to pieces if you succeded,would you? There were once this king with twelve daughters. They all had glass shoes. When they went to sleep they went dancing somewhere but the king couldn't figure out where. So he offered any Prince to find out where they would go if he who tried failed he would sacrifice his life, if he found out where thye went dancing he would be able to pick one to be his wife. Each time the princes tried, the princesses would give them wine, which would put them to sleep.They were given three days, each day they would fall asleep from the wine. Finally a Prince was on his way to try and he ran in to an old woman. The woman told him not to drink the wine and pretend to go to sleep, and gave him a cloak that made whoever wore it become invisible, and told him when the princesses are leaving to dance put this on and walk with them. Did the Prince find where they danced their shoes to peices? read to find out.
This whole book was a page turner because there were some funny, best, worst, and weird fairy tales in there. You always wanted to know what happened next. It wasn't boring, only some of the stories were boring. They were very interesting. I think that anyone who likes fairy tales would like this book. This book is worth 19 pts.
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Summary: A Treasure for Pleasure & Scholarly Readers Alike
Review: Even if your not a scholar, this tremendous read-aloud reaches all the way back to the voices of the oral tradition, whose rich language and images will transport you to a magical state of being. The Frog King begins "In olden times when wishing still helped one, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest was so beautiful that the sun itself, which has seen so much, was astonished whenever it shone in her face." Try that at dusk or by candle light, and see if an awed hush doesn't fall over your listener(s)! For those with a more serious bent, this is perhaps the most accurate English translation of the Grimm's recordings of the oral tales. The complete collection lets you compare the patterns and rhythms of language and story line. The introduction by Padraic Colum and end commentary by Joseph Campbell (some 30 pages) are an added treasure. This version is frequently used by Waldorf teachers, and is "must have" for all primary teachers and families with children.
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Summary: The Grim Side Of The Brothers Grimm
Review: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were what we would call today, recorders of folklore. They traveled throughout Germany, listening to, and putting into writing, well over two hundred folk tales which we now call fairy tales. These tales, as originally written, seem to be some sort of morality plays filled with revenge and retribution. A case in point is "Cinderella," which concludes with birds pecking out the eyes of Cinderella's step-sisters as punishment for their evil ways. In many of these tales, fraud and misdeed are touted as acceptable ways to get ahead. This is particularly true when the hero of the tale is taking advantage of the rather naive everyman who is a staple of many of these stories. A case of this is "The Little Tailor" who parlays the killing of seven flies into marriage to a princess who is forced into marrying him against her will. Many of these stories have been revised elsewhere for the consumption of children and have thus been made both suitable and entertaining. Some, however, tend to be dropped from the modern repertoire because no amount of revision can make them suitable reading. An example of this genre is "The Jew Among Thorns." In this tale, the Jew ends up being hanged as a thief after being tricked, harassed, and cheated by a larcenous dwarf. The moral, if you can call it that, seems to be that the very fact of being a Jew is justification enough for hanging. The Brothers Grimm were just chroniclers of what they heard, but what they heard seems to have been on the grim side. The up side of their fairy tales is they have given us a wonderful array of characters who reappear in literature, on the stage, in Disney movies, and in opera. Some notable examples are: Tom Thumb, Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, and, of course, Cinderella. I'm afraid that I cannot recommend Grimm's Fairy Tales as appropriate reading for children because they present violence, dishonesty, and frequently, murder, as admirable traits. Having said this, however, I must admit that recommending revisions over original versions does go against the grain for me.
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Summary: Reality, Fantasy & Science Fiction in Fairy Tales
Review: Much has been written about the content of the stories and comments regarding violence and harshness have been discussed. Today's "wordly-wise" young people see this sort of thing on television and in the movies. Reading classics written years ago, as fairy tales is both educational and enlightening. Not for the very young, but certainly stories pre-teens and young teens can find interesting. I read them as a pre-teen and they still linger on today. Don't be afraid of Grimm's Fairy Tales. They are enduring classics through the ages!
Evelyn Horan - author
Jeannie, A Texas Frontier Girl Books One - Three
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Summary: The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Review: My opinion of this book was very good, I have read it with great interest. Some of the stories were a bit gruesome for my liking. I enjoyed the most popular stories and noticed how it was different from the ones commonly heard.
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Summary: Fairy tales, rated PG 13
Review: Standing in a children's book store, I read my first Grimm's fairy tale and I was hooked. I was attracted by how odd the stories were to my modern eyes - I never knew that the wicked sisters' feet were cut up, and their eyes pecked out in the real Cinderella! Obviously the tales can be violent and gory, some of them have also been marked anti-semetic. This may not be a book for small children, but it is over 800 pages of wonderful storytelling. These are fairy tales that will live on forever in your heart.
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Summary: A Good Pony for the Language-Learner
Review: The nice thing about the Pantheon edition is that the translation tends to be quite literal, so it's a very good one for someone learning German to use side-by-side with the original. (Plus the stories are great!) Oh, and by the way: The Brothers Grimm were not folklorists, but linguists (besides making a huuuge German dictionary, they were the ones showed that German, English, Dutch, etc. are related to Greek and Latin). The reason they collected folktales is because they were looking for dialect-specimens and this is an old linguists' trick--you get a much purer version of speech in the (linguistically) relaxed folktales than you do in interviews.
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