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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Dark and sinister but it is a great collection of tales worth your time
some of these stories were superb, and others were extremely boring so just a standard 3 stars for this one
A great book and gorgeous artwork. Love that the stories have not been edited from the original speech, and that it contains all of the stories. Any time I want to read a story, I pick up the book to a random page. It's wonderful.
This no doubt was enjoyable having been taken back to my childhood stories but I had so many issues with this book.
1. WHY THE HELL WERE GIRLS PRIZE IN EVERY STORY
2. The greatest thing was marriage and for being married you always got the kings daughter in return even if she disliked she was made out the bad guy - girl
3. The biggest insult was to be called ugly and if you were ugly no matter the riches or knowledge you had you were useless
4. Why were the youngest always the good children the oldest evil and the middle a follower to the youngest? As a middle child, I would like to say much the opposite is the case in my family
I hated many other things but these four were compulsory in every story so not spoilers if you would call them that. On the other hand, this was enjoyable and I heard of allot of stories I would of otherwise never known.
1. WHY THE HELL WERE GIRLS PRIZE IN EVERY STORY
2. The greatest thing was marriage and for being married you always got the kings daughter in return even if she disliked she was made out the bad guy - girl
3. The biggest insult was to be called ugly and if you were ugly no matter the riches or knowledge you had you were useless
4. Why were the youngest always the good children the oldest evil and the middle a follower to the youngest? As a middle child, I would like to say much the opposite is the case in my family
I hated many other things but these four were compulsory in every story so not spoilers if you would call them that. On the other hand, this was enjoyable and I heard of allot of stories I would of otherwise never known.
3/5
There were over 200 stories, some are as short as a page and a half and some as long as 20 pages. Interesting but about 30% of the way through, the names, themes, and events start to repeat.
There were over 200 stories, some are as short as a page and a half and some as long as 20 pages. Interesting but about 30% of the way through, the names, themes, and events start to repeat.
I love this.
It's so interesting to read the original stories and not the disney ones.
this is something i definately would be sharing with my nephews.
It's so interesting to read the original stories and not the disney ones.
this is something i definately would be sharing with my nephews.
I am reading this for a class. I was very surprised once I saw the book and its illustrations that it was one of the few books I had from the library as a kid. I remember counting all the animals in the illustrations and making sure that they matched the number of animals in the stories.
For sure, this book is really hard to read as for me, which took english as second language. But, it is a refreshing to read the ‘darker’ version than the kid’s version...