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Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know (2000)

by Hamilton Wright Mabie(Favorite Author)

3.78 of 5 Votes: 4

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review 1: I was looking for an audiblebook that would provide a lot of bang for the buck (11 hours 5 minutes for 1 credit). We've been reading several novelizations of fairy tales lately,(like "Half Upon A Time") and they make reference to fairy tales that my kids aren't familiar with (like Rose Red, or the man who slew 7 with one blow). So, we've been checking out physical fairy tale books as well as audio books about fairy tales to fill in the holes in our fairy tale education.This compilation uses older langauge, which I really like. My kids seem to be able to understand it just fine. The narrator is good. There are some familiar stories, as well as some I'd never heard. The book starts off with "One Eye, Two Eye, Three Eye." Add a magic goat and you've got a slightly creepy, ... morebut really fun fairy tale. Others I wasn't as familiar with included the Enchanted Stag, The White Cat, The Twelve Brothers, The Fair One With the Golden Locks, Blue Beard. Stories with plenty of familiarity, but may have some surprises from the way they were portrayed by Disney or other modern tellings include: Snow White (or in this version, the Magic Mirror), Hansel and Gretel, Aladdin, Ali Baba, Cinderella, Puss in Boots, The Golden Goose, the Three Bears,etc.There are 24 separate stories in this book. We all really enjoyed this book. Remember, though, that original fairy tales can be a bit more savage than you might remember. This isn't necessarily bedtime reading for every child.
review 2: I was looking for an audiblebook that would provide a lot of bang for the buck (11 hours 5 minutes for 1 credit). We've been reading several novelizations of fairy tales lately,(like "Half Upon A Time") and they make reference to fairy tales that my kids aren't familiar with (like Rose Red, or the man who slew 7 with one blow). So, we've been checking out physical fairy tale books as well as audio books about fairy tales to fill in the holes in our fairy tale education.This compilation uses older langauge, which I really like. My kids seem to be able to understand it just fine. The narrator is good. There are some familiar stories, as well as some I'd never heard. The book starts off with "One Eye, Two Eye, Three Eye." Add a magic goat and you've got a slightly creepy, but really fun fairy tale. Others I wasn't as familiar with included the Enchanted Stag, The White Cat, The Twelve Brothers, The Fair One With the Golden Locks, Blue Beard. Stories with plenty of familiarity, but may have some surprises from the way they were portrayed by Disney or other modern tellings include: Snow White (or in this version, the Magic Mirror), Hansel and Gretel, Aladdin, Ali Baba, Cinderella, Puss in Boots, The Golden Goose, the Three Bears,etc.There are 24 separate stories in this book. We all really enjoyed this book. Remember, though, that original fairy tales can be a bit more savage than you might remember. This isn't necessarily bedtime reading for every child. less

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Ivory

Tales which are immortal. From childhood to adulthood, fairy-tales act as a guide, to sort wrong front right and teach us morals. When we learn about the world through our own experiences, we forget the imagination we made as a child, we forget those knights in shiny armor, those sleeping princesses. As Peter Pan once said, never grow up, - and as I think, don't be afraid to show your nose in this book on a bus, even disguised in your kindle, be proud that you are not succumbed to the bleakness of adulthood.It is never too late to relive your imagination, even if you may have left it for a while...

CrazyKool

Although I know most of the fairy tales included in this book, I am still amazed at how the original version is too far from the retellings I've read. This actually makes it more interesting and as always when reading fairy tales, my imagination works full time. The notable difference however, in my experience as an adult reading these tales, is that I tend to question the impossibility and absurdity of the situation in the story, whereas the child me would just accept everything happily with unbound imagination. I've enjoyed reading them nonetheless.

valkec

8/10

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