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vertellerpaul's review
2.0
There are a few good fairy tales and these can be found in most collections. However, there are a lot of boring ones. The yellow fairy book contains almost exclusively stories of the “a thing happens and then another thing happens” type. Lots of deus ex machina. I found it tedious and uninteresting to read. I really wanted to like this book, but I didn’t. I stopped reading half way through and I doubt I will pick up any of the other fairy books by Lang...
sonshinelibrarian's review
5.0
I think this might have been my favorite collection so far - or maybe it was just that I think I've gotten the most ideas for fairytale retellings from this one :)
jresendez610's review against another edition
2.0
My rating as more to do with the narration of the audiobook rather than the fairy tales. The actual fairy tales were ok. Some were more interesting than others. However, the narration was awful. Each narrator read in such a bored voice that it was very difficult to be interested in what they were reading. I may have enjoyed the book more if I had read it rather than listened to it. If I decide to read another of the color fairy books, I will definitely skip the audio version.
hazelalaska's review against another edition
3.0
2.75 stars.
First, I wanted mention a few small issues I have with this book, specifically the edition I have, because it did impact the reading experience. None of the page numbers match up in the Kindle edition I have, not even within the book itself. For example, the table of contents states that the story is on page 100, but when I go to the story the page number at the bottom says 80. I think this is because the edition I have does not include illustrations or woodcuts, despite having lists of them at the beginning of the book. The book lists the final story as starting on page 319, but the Kindle says that it has 253 pages, and here on Goodreads it says it only has 156 pages. This is a minor annoyance, but I wish it was more consistent because I've never had this problem before. There were also no attributions at the end of each story about what country or culture it came from, which is always interesting to know.
This is definitely my least favorite of the books in this series I've read so far. There were a lot stories that fell into the just okay category for me, and only one that I really loved, which was Thumbelina. There were more stories that I disliked than the number of ones I liked.
Favorites:
Thumbelina
Good:
The Six Swans
The Donkey Cabbage
The Grateful Beasts
The Giants and the Herd-Boy
The Invisible Prince
The Wizard King
Alphege, or the Green Monkey
Fairer-than-a-Fairy
The Glass Axe
The White Duck
The Witch and her Servants
The Magic Ring
The Flower Queen's Daughter
The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son
The Story of King Frost
The Swineherd
The Witch in the Stone Boat
The Nightingale
The Steadfast Tin-soldier
Okay:
The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership
The Dragon of the North
Story of the Emperor's New Clothes
The Golden Crab
The Iron Stove
The Little Green Frog
The Crow
How Six Men travelled through the Wide World
The Nixy
The Glass Mountain
The Three Brothers
The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise
The Dead Wife
In the Land of Souls
The Flying Ship
The Death of the Sun-hero
The Witch
The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus
Prince Ring
How to Tell a True Princess (A.K.A The Princess and the Pea)
The Blue Mountains
The Tinder-box
Hermod and Hadvor
Didn't Like:
The Dragon and his Grandmother
The Seven-headed Serpent
The Hazel-nut Child
Blockhead Hans
A Story about a Darning-needle
First, I wanted mention a few small issues I have with this book, specifically the edition I have, because it did impact the reading experience. None of the page numbers match up in the Kindle edition I have, not even within the book itself. For example, the table of contents states that the story is on page 100, but when I go to the story the page number at the bottom says 80. I think this is because the edition I have does not include illustrations or woodcuts, despite having lists of them at the beginning of the book. The book lists the final story as starting on page 319, but the Kindle says that it has 253 pages, and here on Goodreads it says it only has 156 pages. This is a minor annoyance, but I wish it was more consistent because I've never had this problem before. There were also no attributions at the end of each story about what country or culture it came from, which is always interesting to know.
This is definitely my least favorite of the books in this series I've read so far. There were a lot stories that fell into the just okay category for me, and only one that I really loved, which was Thumbelina. There were more stories that I disliked than the number of ones I liked.
Favorites:
Thumbelina
Good:
The Six Swans
The Donkey Cabbage
The Grateful Beasts
The Giants and the Herd-Boy
The Invisible Prince
The Wizard King
Alphege, or the Green Monkey
Fairer-than-a-Fairy
The Glass Axe
The White Duck
The Witch and her Servants
The Magic Ring
The Flower Queen's Daughter
The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son
The Story of King Frost
The Swineherd
The Witch in the Stone Boat
The Nightingale
The Steadfast Tin-soldier
Okay:
The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership
The Dragon of the North
Story of the Emperor's New Clothes
The Golden Crab
The Iron Stove
The Little Green Frog
The Crow
How Six Men travelled through the Wide World
The Nixy
The Glass Mountain
The Three Brothers
The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise
The Dead Wife
In the Land of Souls
The Flying Ship
The Death of the Sun-hero
The Witch
The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus
Prince Ring
How to Tell a True Princess (A.K.A The Princess and the Pea)
The Blue Mountains
The Tinder-box
Hermod and Hadvor
Didn't Like:
The Dragon and his Grandmother
The Seven-headed Serpent
The Hazel-nut Child
Blockhead Hans
A Story about a Darning-needle
amythebookbat's review against another edition
3.0
A lot of similarities in stories... I guess because they are from different countries and the books are showing that different countries have similar fairy tales?
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