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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
adventurous
reflective
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I liked the variety of the collection and was interested to see how the stories morphed when translating to newer media
adventurous
dark
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I've always been interested in Grimms Fairytales so this was nice
For the longest time, this old, beat up copy of Grimm’s fairytales was just sitting around and my dad finally decided to get rid of it. I intercepted him in horror and said that I would keep it instead. I was like 12 years old and didn’t really know anything about it, but I would not stand for what was obviously such a special book to be trashed so disrespectfully.
I still remember how attached I was to that thing. I read it on the stairs, under the covers, and my most prominent memory is reading it laying on the floor of my living room while my entire family was visiting for Christmas Eve. I could not go to my room, but I could bring my book with me.
I read every single demented story and I loved it. I think my mom didn’t really know what I was reading and might have been slightly horrified to find out, but that’s besides the point: I was enchanted. That battered copy still sits on my bookshelf to this day and I will never get rid of it.
I still remember how attached I was to that thing. I read it on the stairs, under the covers, and my most prominent memory is reading it laying on the floor of my living room while my entire family was visiting for Christmas Eve. I could not go to my room, but I could bring my book with me.
I read every single demented story and I loved it. I think my mom didn’t really know what I was reading and might have been slightly horrified to find out, but that’s besides the point: I was enchanted. That battered copy still sits on my bookshelf to this day and I will never get rid of it.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I did finish it actually, however the Kindle app on Iphone did not show the correct page number. This website says that there are only 69 pages when the kindle app for iPhone says 829 pages.
I loved this book! I thought it was a good read! Have also loved fairy tales, so I thought I should read it. Glad I did!
adventurous
challenging
fast-paced
Grimm's tales translated faithfully to the original collection. Delightfully strange, silly, and often pointless.
From The Brothers Grimm I've learned:
* if you are a beautiful maiden you will invariably be enchanted or cursed in some way and a handsome son of a king will save you and marry you.
* Kings, princes, princesses, Queens and most other people do not have names and the places they live do not have names.
* your step-mother is almost always evil, wicked and/or a witch and will try to kill you.
* your beloved/betrothed can forget you simply by kissing his mother and then you have to win him back from another maiden.
* nuts are excellent places to hide dresses, which are most often made of gold, moonbeams or stars.
* giants are stupid and easy to tick into giving you enchanted items.
* old men and women will just give you enchanted items when you ask to stay in their home.
From The Brothers Grimm I've learned:
* if you are a beautiful maiden you will invariably be enchanted or cursed in some way and a handsome son of a king will save you and marry you.
* Kings, princes, princesses, Queens and most other people do not have names and the places they live do not have names.
* your step-mother is almost always evil, wicked and/or a witch and will try to kill you.
* your beloved/betrothed can forget you simply by kissing his mother and then you have to win him back from another maiden.
* nuts are excellent places to hide dresses, which are most often made of gold, moonbeams or stars.
* giants are stupid and easy to tick into giving you enchanted items.
* old men and women will just give you enchanted items when you ask to stay in their home.
In all the slickness of the modern world and with my kids’ gut-level avoidance of “old” movies and books, I’m always so surprised by their love of traditional fables and fairy-tales. Their most beloved book (together) growing up was this random book of fables that used to make regular appearances at bedtime. They loved to read that book together. Still, when I put some fables and fairy tales into our fifth grade curriculum for my son, I wasn’t sure he would enjoy them. Lo and behold, he loved reading Grimms’ Fairy Tales. (We read the Puffin’s classics version. We will also be reading Hans Christen Andersen’s Fairy Tales, The Blue Fairy Book, and Aesop’s Fables before the end of the year.) Perhaps he wouldn’t want to announce it to his friends or have a fairy tale birthday party, but there’s something about these old stories that has always captured the attention and imagination of my children.
There’s some moments. Because the stories are old, there are some culture chasms that just won’t be spanned. Most of them, in this book, are laughable, which is good. I mean, some of the stories are just truly bizarre and follow no pattern of character or plot that we can identify. On the other hand, there is a history of the fables in our Puffin Classics volume which I would recommend reading first, and it helps to account for some of the oddities: these were oral stories gathered by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from out-of-the-way places, translated into written form in a number of different ways. They’re also not as dark or violent as modern people are wont to make them out to be in intellectual conversation, or at least the ones in the Puffin Classics volume aren’t. That volume is not a complete compilation, but a curated collection.
Just read them, enjoy them, laugh at them, talk about them. They’re classics, and my kids, for one, love them.
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If you want to then make a leap to more modern stuff, there is a deep library of books, shows, and movies based on the old stories. Some of them are a stretch, and there is almost no end to all the currently available fractured fairy tale stuff. And of course, there are a zillion illustrated versions of the actual fairy tales, which I won’t go into listing, as well as getting your hands on a complete collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Just head to any library or bookstore.
To recommend a few things:
The Princess and the Frog (Disney movie, 2009)
Into the Woods (movie, 2014)
Cinderella (Disney movie, 1950)
Cinderella (movie, 2015)
Ever After (movie, 1998)
Snow White (Disney movie, 1937)
Mirror, Mirror (movie, 2012)
Sleeping Beauty (Disney movie, 1959)
Meleficent (movie, 2014)
Hoodwinked (animated movie, 2005)
Shrek series, (movies, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010)
Tangled (2010)
Red Riding Hood (movie, 2011, for much older kids)
Once Upon a Time (TV series, 2011-2018)
Grimm (TV series, 2011-2017, for grown-ups)
The Brothers Grimm (movie, 2005)
A Tale Dark and Grimm (book, Adam Gidwitz)
The Sisters Grimm series (MG books, Michael Buckley)
Cinder series (YA books, Marinda Meyer)
***REVIEW WRITTEN FOR THE STARVING ARTIST BLOG***
There’s some moments. Because the stories are old, there are some culture chasms that just won’t be spanned. Most of them, in this book, are laughable, which is good. I mean, some of the stories are just truly bizarre and follow no pattern of character or plot that we can identify. On the other hand, there is a history of the fables in our Puffin Classics volume which I would recommend reading first, and it helps to account for some of the oddities: these were oral stories gathered by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm from out-of-the-way places, translated into written form in a number of different ways. They’re also not as dark or violent as modern people are wont to make them out to be in intellectual conversation, or at least the ones in the Puffin Classics volume aren’t. That volume is not a complete compilation, but a curated collection.
Just read them, enjoy them, laugh at them, talk about them. They’re classics, and my kids, for one, love them.
________________
If you want to then make a leap to more modern stuff, there is a deep library of books, shows, and movies based on the old stories. Some of them are a stretch, and there is almost no end to all the currently available fractured fairy tale stuff. And of course, there are a zillion illustrated versions of the actual fairy tales, which I won’t go into listing, as well as getting your hands on a complete collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales. Just head to any library or bookstore.
To recommend a few things:
The Princess and the Frog (Disney movie, 2009)
Into the Woods (movie, 2014)
Cinderella (Disney movie, 1950)
Cinderella (movie, 2015)
Ever After (movie, 1998)
Snow White (Disney movie, 1937)
Mirror, Mirror (movie, 2012)
Sleeping Beauty (Disney movie, 1959)
Meleficent (movie, 2014)
Hoodwinked (animated movie, 2005)
Shrek series, (movies, 2001, 2004, 2007, 2010)
Tangled (2010)
Red Riding Hood (movie, 2011, for much older kids)
Once Upon a Time (TV series, 2011-2018)
Grimm (TV series, 2011-2017, for grown-ups)
The Brothers Grimm (movie, 2005)
A Tale Dark and Grimm (book, Adam Gidwitz)
The Sisters Grimm series (MG books, Michael Buckley)
Cinder series (YA books, Marinda Meyer)
***REVIEW WRITTEN FOR THE STARVING ARTIST BLOG***
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated