readingstewardess 's review for:

Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

4.0

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Reading "Grimm's Fairy Tales" has long been on my list of must read books, because it is such a classic and has inspired so many films, both Disney and otherwise. The edition I read, courtesy of Barnes & Noble, had all the stories except for the two most controversial ones due to their anti-semitic bent and the fact that Hitler used them as part of his oratory against the Jewish people. Not needing to read these two missing stories, I rather enjoyed this collection of the Grimm's Brother's Fairy Tales. I immediately recognized the classics and better known stories, like: "Rapunzel", "Rumpelstiltskin", "Sleeping Beauty" and "Cinderella". It was nice to be introduced to some new and lesser known stories like "The Crystal Ball". The largest drawback and annoyance I noticed during the course of my reading, was that after a while, many of the stories all began to resemble one another to the point that they seemed to be the exact same plot with only one or two minor differences in the stories as a whole. Overall though, this was well worth the read and it makes me appreciate the original stories even more regardless of the liberties Disney has taken when making the stories more child and family friendly.