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The Yellow Fairy Book characters ´ 7 Read & Download Ö eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB µ Andrew Lang Andrew Lang µ 7 characters A cat had made acuaintance with a mouse and had spoken so much of the great love and friendship she felt for her that at last the Mouse consented to live in the same house with her and to go shares in the housekeeping 'But we must provide for the winter or else we shall suffer hunger ' said the Cat 'You little Mouse cannot venture everywhere I grew up with a copy of Andrew Lang s The Blue Fairy Book I loved that hardback edition of fairy tales I read it and reread it and reread it At that time I had no idea that there were a whole set of color fairy tales to be had But I had such fond memories of it that when I spied a modern edition of The Yellow Fairy Book at our Friends of the Library Book Shop in 2015 I just had to bring it home with me I have to admit that it wasn t as spellbinding to my adult self as that first fairy tale collection was to my younger selfThere is something very magical about fairy tales for children The simple phrase Once upon a time sets the stage for all sorts of wonderful adventures Adventures that feature girls no bigger than your thumb a boy who can turn into a wolf and a talking stove as well as the traditional princes princesses giants witches elves and giants In fact I was already familiar with a number of the stories collected here including Thumbelina The Six Swans The Emperor s New Clothes The Glass Mountain and The Nightingale These are also some of the best tales in the book and I did still enjoy the visit to fairy landwith a few reservationspardon me a moment as I step onto one of my soap boxesI didn t realize when I picked up the book that Andrew Lang s collection had been edited by Brian Alderson Edited here means that Brian made whatever alterations he thought necessary to make these palatable to a modern audience I m not going to argue the pros and cons of those decisions what I will do is give my opinion that if Mr Alderson wanted to put together a acceptable collection of fairy tales then he should have done so with his own book He shouldn t have been given Andrew Lang s collection and then been given free rein to decide whether the versions Lang included were appropriate or the most readable or whatever Part of the charm of the Blue Fairy Book as I recall was that I knew even as a youngster in the late 1970s that I was stepping into a different time period an era that believed in fairies and magic and dragons etc and a time period that may have thought other things that were no longer true as well I knew that this time period didn t represent my time period and I didn t expect it to But setting aside the rightness of whether he should have made the choices at all I also have trouble with some of the choices themselves he tells us that he has gotten rid of some of Lang s selections because they weren t interesting but then he keeps variations of stories that are virtually the same For example we have multiple variations of the simpleton or the least favored or what have you winning the day through virtue of having made the right friends gluttons who can eat everything men who can make things cold or can see great distances friends who can help him perform the impossible tasks reuired of him If the point is to have a better offering of stories all arond then I would think variety would be a good standard to meet as wellOverall still a good selection of fairy tales that should appeal to young readers and I did enjoy them Just not uite as much as expected First posted on my blog My Reader s Block Please reuest permission before reposting Thanks

The Yellow Fairy Book characters ´ 7 Read & Download Ö eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB µ Andrew Lang Andrew Lang µ 7 characters In case you run at last into a trap' This good counsel was followed and a little pot of fat was bought But they did not know where to put it At length after long consultation the Cat said 'I know of no place where it could be better put than in the church No one will trouble to take it away from there We will hide it in a corner and we won't I feel like I saw pretty much the same thing in all my reviews for these books but it was enjoyable Some were boring and other were good

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The Yellow Fairy Book characters ´ 7 Read & Download Ö eBook, PDF or Kindle ePUB µ Andrew Lang Andrew Lang µ 7 characters Touch it till we are in want' So the little pot was placed in safety; but it was not long before the Cat had a great longing for it and said to the Mouse 'I wanted to tell you little Mouse that my cousin has a little son white with brown spots and she wants me to be godmother to it Let me go out to day and do you take care of the house alone' This is the one in which the tales really start to branch out There are a couple of literary tales that I didn t much like but a lot places Greek Polish Bukowinaer Iclelandic A few from North America I particularly liked The Golden Crab The Flower ueen s Daughter in which dragons ride horses and go to dances where humans can dance too The Grateful Beasts The Witch in the Stone Boat and The Blue Mountains