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A review by jason_pym
Grimms' Fairy Tales: Nine Stories by Jacob Grimm
3.0
A tiny book with very short (3-5 page) versions of the stories. There are weird ones you've never heard of, and familiar ones that don't turn out as you expect.
In the Frog Prince, the girl doesn't kiss the frog - the princess marries the frog against her will, then smashes him against the wall in disgust. It's only then that the frog transforms into royalty.
The queen tries to kill Snow White three times, first with a bodice then a poison comb, before she tries the apple.
I never realised that Rapunzel was the name of a plant, also called rampion, kind of a radish but used for its leaves which were like spinach apparently. So 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!' could also be 'radish, radish, let down your hair...'
The weird ones include those that could turn into an interesting story (like The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Goose Girl, The Six Swans).
Then there are the really weird ones, like The Straw, the Coal and the Bean, or The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, the moral of which seems to be 'never send a sausage to do a bird's work.'
In the Frog Prince, the girl doesn't kiss the frog - the princess marries the frog against her will, then smashes him against the wall in disgust. It's only then that the frog transforms into royalty.
The queen tries to kill Snow White three times, first with a bodice then a poison comb, before she tries the apple.
I never realised that Rapunzel was the name of a plant, also called rampion, kind of a radish but used for its leaves which were like spinach apparently. So 'Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!' could also be 'radish, radish, let down your hair...'
The weird ones include those that could turn into an interesting story (like The Twelve Dancing Princesses, The Goose Girl, The Six Swans).
Then there are the really weird ones, like The Straw, the Coal and the Bean, or The Mouse, the Bird, and the Sausage, the moral of which seems to be 'never send a sausage to do a bird's work.'