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 Ellie Bowes |
Your favourite story? |
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Posts: 1 (01/30/08 14:43:33) |
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!
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Posts: 156 (01/30/08 17:09:42) |
All twelve of the coloured fairy books are good for children (and adults, too, for that matter).
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Mnemosynehime |
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Posts: 31 (01/31/08 20:32:15) |
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 Christan Anderson there is The Wild Swans with illustrations by Anne Yvonne Gilbert. For a nice Christmas tale there's Who's That Knocking on Christmas Eve by Jan Brett, based from Norwegian folkstories. Those are the ones that immediately come to mind. |
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Posts: 2 (02/06/08 13:10:37) |
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.
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Posts: 9 (02/11/08 07:39:39) |
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 to double check) while still being of interest to adult readers. |
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loggats |
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Posts: 1 (03/02/08 15:47:51) |
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.
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Posts: 1 (03/06/08 19:45:32) |
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. |
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Posts: 12 (03/08/08 17:23:38) |
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. |
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Posts: 19 (03/09/08 06:49:32) |
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 Classic Fairy Tales These books are in fact English translations of French fairy-tale collections and therefore contain some lovely French modern illustrations from a variety of different authors and contain many of the obvious classic tales plus some less obvious ones (for the English speaking world at least). If I remember correctly, the former contains tales such as Cinderella, The Ugly Duckling, Bluebeard and Sleeping Beauty (using Perrault's second half involving an ogre mother in law), whilst the latter contains stories such as The Bremen Town Musicians, Beauty and the Beast and The Emperor's New Clothes. These collections also capture the mood of the original tales excellently for re-tellings, as well. And as strange as this sounds, the Puffin Classics version of Andersens' Fairy Tales are well worth looking at if you're buying for yourself and for the kids simultaneously. Lewis' translations are good and the book on the whole is suitable for anyone over the age of seven. Avoid many paperback "classics" editions of Grimm and Andersen, though, as they may be poorly translated (the Puffin and Penguin Popular versions of Grimm use the earliest translations, with disastrous results :-p) and a lot of the "complete" ones are definitely too wordy or long for kids under the age of ten. Also recommended are novels in the genre of fairy-tale fantasy such as Alice in Wonderland, Pinocchio, Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz. I think that A Christmas Carol and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe might be worth a gander too, as well as some of Phillip Pullman's stuff (His Dark Materials is naturally best for the over-tens, but he's written some books that are good for younger readers such as Clockwork). |
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Posts: 16 (08/14/08 18:48:33) |
otto1980 wrote: 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
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Posts: 32 (08/26/08 21:42:12) |
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.
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Posts: 3 (04/06/09 14:56:00) |
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 Acorna books) There are many more authors, but I cant remember them off the top of my head. I'll get back to you with more authors later. Nikki |
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Posts: 340 (04/07/09 03:29:07) |
Thanks Cammie/Kittie. FAVORITE FOLKTALES is alive and well in the paperback edition and still selling briskly.
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War of the Flowers | ||
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Posts: 7 (05/13/09 06:30:15) |
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
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