The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

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Summary: Great Book For Adults- Discuss First before Giving to Child
Review: This is a superb collection of the Grimms Tales. It even includes various tales that have been left out over the years. The English translation makes this the best version of the stories.
However, please discuss some issues with kids if you give this book to them, such as story 110- The Jew in the Thornbush and various violent aspects of some tales.
Some more illustrations would have been nice as well, but all in all, as stated, a superb collection of the Tales.

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Summary: Stories For Children?
Review: This is a very interesting collection of fairy tales. It has the popular forms and ones that I've never even herd about.
I found the omitted tales thrilling and very disturbing. It amuses me how scholars and historians say that fairy tales are damaging to children.
When modern day writting is much more sever.

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Summary: Grimm's tales as they should be read!
Review: True, some (but not all) of the Brothers Grimm stories are gruesome and parents would find it unesay reading them to their children as fairy stories, but then they were never intended to be read predominantly by, or to, children. The Brothers Grimm wrote down their collected oral tales mainly for the bourgeois audiences of 19th century europe, and Jacob Grimm said that whilst the stories were mainly for an adult readership, the fact that children were also beginning to read them was just a bonus. Certainly many of the tales are different to the sweet and innocent versions portrayed by Disney. Don't expect to find cute little animals here! However, expect to find tales with a moral and a recipe for living, as prevelent today as they were nearly 200 years ago. It's a great book, especially with the added bonus of Zipes' introduction which details the history of the Brothers Grimm and their reasons for writing down the tales. Buy it to read to yourself, not your children!