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mat_tobin's review against another edition
4.0
It is very easy to be dismissive here of Garner's writing. The narrative is very short and there is no elaboration here of place or people. Some of this is down to the fact that Fairytales of Gold is a collection of four very short retellings of folktales presented in concise, brief narrative format either for the early reader or as a way of tempting readers into the world of fairytale. Whatever the case, to see the stories in the way would be to ignore the 'theme and tempo' of traditional tales which will always be poised with its prose and rich with its content and Garner is master of this. What remains a delight to all though are Foreman's full-colour illustrations. I forget how well he does traditional tale. His watercolours evoke that rich, visual world of endless landscapes and colour monsters so well and in this hardback collection a world of floating heads and ugly ogres springs to life and is bound to make their mark on the reader.
mat_tobin's review
4.0
It is very easy to be dismissive here of Garner's writing. The narrative is very short and there is no elaboration here of place or people. Some of this is down to the fact that Fairytales of Gold is a collection of four very short retellings of folktales presented in concise, brief narrative format either for the early reader or as a way of tempting readers into the world of fairytale. Whatever the case, to see the stories in the way would be to ignore the 'theme and tempo' of traditional tales which will always be poised with its prose and rich with its content and Garner is master of this. What remains a delight to all though are Foreman's full-colour illustrations. I forget how well he does traditional tale. His watercolours evoke that rich, visual world of endless landscapes and colour monsters so well and in this hardback collection a world of floating heads and ugly ogres springs to life and is bound to make their mark on the reader.
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