Your favourite story?

Re: Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (Skip) — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:30:15 GMT

Author Tad Williams, "War of the Flowers" is a good read. He instills a faerie vibe into a morality tale very well, even, and perhaps because of the protagonist is a cat, or a wolverine! Skip

Re: Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (janeyolen) — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 03:29:07 GMT

Thanks Cammie/Kittie. FAVORITE FOLKTALES is alive and well in the paperback edition and still selling briskly.

Jane Yolen

Re: Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (Kute Katt) — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:56:00 GMT

You have to try Gail Carson Levine's books. I'm 12, and I happen to LOVE these books. My friends just adore them too. They are 100-200 pages, and some are even picture books.

Here are some other authors that write 200 pg books:

Sharon Shinn (these are 400-700 pg, but page turners)
Shannon Hale
JK Rowling (also large books)
ED Baker
Jeanne DuPrau
Anne McCaffery (some of these are rather large, but the more advanced readers will love the...

Re: Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (cammykitty) — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:42:12 GMT

Favorite Folktales from around the World edited by Jane Yolen is a fun collection. I'm fascinated with The Serpant Woman, a Spanish story. Pantheon books, isbn is 0394751884. I got my copy a long time ago and it has my dog's chomp of approval on it, so I don't know how easy it is to find. It was available in bookstores for many years though.

Re: Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (otto1980) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:48:33 GMT

otto1980 wrote:
I wish they would reissue the Ruth Manning-Sanders/Robin Jacques "A Book of...." series for libraries.
Such wonderfully told and illustrated fairy and folk tales, and a great international mix, too.

Looks like we have the first re-release of a Manning-Sanders book in decades. "A Book of Mermaids" (expensive to buy used) is now available for $9.95

Not sure if...

Re: Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (Wonderlicious) — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 06:49:32 GMT

These are books only available in England, but I would recommend them (perhaps you're up for Amazon.co.uk?):

Fairy Tales: A Classic Collection

Re: Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (otto1980) — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:23:38 GMT

I wish they would reissue the Ruth Manning-Sanders/Robin Jacques "A Book of...." series for libraries.
Such wonderfully told and illustrated fairy and folk tales, and a great international mix, too.

Re: Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (dustwitch923) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 19:45:32 GMT

Grimms and Andersen and probably my favorite fairy tale collections.

I have to parrot the Alice recommedation and include Peter Pan, The Wizard of Oz, and the fairy tales of George MacDonald (also his book The Princess and the Goblin).

Joseph Jacob's collection of English Fairy Tales is great too.

Re: Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (loggats) — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:47:51 GMT

Donkeyskin? There's a Perrault version and a Lang one (in the grey book) amongst others. That's one I remember very clearly because of the illustrations. Lang expurgates the story considerably. If the Alice books count, I'd choose them. But fairy tales set in forests, involving gardens are my very favourite.

Re: Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (petajinnathandersen) — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 07:39:39 GMT

I second 'The White Cat'. I love that story.

I just want to add 'The Victorian Fairy Tale Book', edited by Michael Patrick Hearn. It has twelve stories, I think, including William Thackeray's 'The Rose and the Ring', Ford Maddox Ford's 'Brown Owl', and Mary De Morgan's 'Princess Fiorimonde's necklace'. Many of the tales are appropriate for children (I say 'many' rather than 'all' because I can't see my copy...

Re: Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (earthlyparadise) — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 13:10:37 GMT

My favourites are Sleeping Beauty and Snow White, hands down. We had a lovely illustrated version of Snow White growing up, but I simply can't recall the author's name. Used bookstores are a great place to find lavishly illustrated classics.

Re: Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (Mnemosynehime) — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:32:15 GMT

I love D'Aulnoy and have a fondness for her tale White Cat. I don't have any children's picture book versions, but I know there have been some. I collect children's books and one of my favorite tellers/illustrators remains Ruth Sanderson. Papa Gatto and The Snow Princess are lovely. Two more I adore are The Lady and the Lion and the Magic Nesting Egg from Jacqueline K. Ogburn. P.J. Lynch's East O' the Sun and West O' the Moon is also quite nice. For Hans...

Re: Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (MaryCatelli) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:09:42 GMT

All twelve of the coloured fairy books are good for children (and adults, too, for that matter).

Your favourite story?

feeds@yuku.com (Ellie Bowes) — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:43:33 GMT

I want to buy some books about fairytales for my local library and just wanted to know who your favourite fairytale author is? Do people generally prefer the Grimm's versions? If so why? I'm going to be buying primarily for children aged 7-10 but I've noticed some good books for adults lying around as well, hopefully this can help me to pick out some good copies that will ensure these stories get read and read and read!

-Ellie