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Andrew Lang just continues to spit out one greatr book after another. His tales are plain and follow the plot they were meant to follow. This book contains 42 tales and 98 black and white pictues. Some of the tales in this book include:Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla,The Three Small Pigs,The Enchanted Ring,The Magic Swan,The Crystsal Coffin, The Riddle,The Three Musicians, and more.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
My children and I use the Fairy Books series as part of our homeschooling program. We just like them.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
In the late 19th century, historian, scholar, and anthropologist, Andrew Lang, started publishing collections of fairy tales from around the world. The first volume was `The Blue Fairy Book’ published in 1887. Lang was not a right ethnologist, like the German Brothers Grimm. He was far more the `translator’ than collector of tales from the source, tales transcribed from being told by people to whom the tales were passed down by word of mouth. In fact, many tales in his first volume, such as Rumpelstiltskin; Snow White; Sleeping Beauty; Cinderella; and Hansel and Gretel were translated from Grimm’s books of fairy tales. Some of his `fairy tales’ were even `hackneyed from relatively recent fantasy fiction, such as A Voyage to Lilliput, the first of the four episodes in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels.
My inspiration for commenting Lang’s series of fairy tale books is for the sheer amount of tales, the wonderful woodcut illustrations, some few of which may have become nearly as well loved as the tales (although not reasonably in the same league as Sir John Tenniel’s illustrations for Lewis Carroll’s fantastic fantasies), and the fact that I had these when I was young.
With twelve of these books, with between 30 and 36 tales in each book, this gives one about 400 different tales. If I were to recommend anything as standard equipment at a grandparents’ house, it would be a perfect set of these books.
Needless to say, there are a few `warnings’ to accompany books assembled over 100 years ago. You will encounter a honest number of words with which even an adult may be unfamiliar, let alone a five year ancient. For example, on the second page of The Princess Mayblossom in The Red Fairy Book, a character puts sulfur in a witch’s porridge. This requires at least three explanations. What is sulfur, what is porridge, and why is sulfur in porridge such a terrible thing. More hard still is when a prince entered the town on a white horse which `pranced and caracoled to the sound of the trumpets’. In 19th century London, caracoling (building half turns to the right and the left) was probably as common and as well known as `stepping on the gas’ is today. But, if you’re a forerunner, that’s half the fun, explaining new words and thoughts to the young-uns.
There is another `danger’ which may require just a bit more explanation, although in today’s world of crime dramas on TV, I’m not sure that most kids are already really immune to being shocked by death and dead bodies. In these tales, lots of people and creatures get killed in very unpleasant ways, and lots of very excellent people and creatures suffer in very unpleasant ways. It’s ironic that the critics in Lang’s own time felt the tales were ‘unreality, cruelty, and escapism to be harmful for young readers, while holding that such tales were beneath the serious consideration of persons of mature age’. The success of a whole library of Walt Disney feature part cartoons based on these tales is a tribute to how well they work with children. But do be warned, Uncle Walt did clean things up a bit. Lang’s versions hold back on very small that was hideous and unpleasant in some of these tales.
The down side to the fantastic amount of tales is that even when some come from very different parts of the world, there is a remarkable amount of overlap in theme, plot, and characters. But by the time you get to another tale of a gorgeous young girl mistreated by a stepmother, it will have been several month since you read Cinderella or the Small Glass Slipper in The Blue Fairy Book. The additional side of the coin is that you can play the game of trying to recall what that additional tale was with a similar theme.
There is one very huge word of caution about buying these books through Amazon or a similar on line outlet. I stopped counting when I got to twelve different editions of The Blue Fairy Book, or a volume including several of these books. Not all of these editions have the original woodcuts and even worse, not all have a table of contents and introduction. The one publisher which has all twelve volumes is by Dover. Additional publishers, such as Flying Chipmunk Publishing (yes, that’s it’s name) also have all the original illustrations, table of contents, and introduction, but I’m not certain that publisher has all twelve volumes. Dover most certainly does, as I just bought all twelve of them from Amazon.
While I suspect these tales may have been `ancient hat’ for reasonably some time, it may be that with the popularity of Lord of the Rings, the Narnia tales, and the Harry Potter tales, all of which have their share of suffering and death, that these may be in for a revival. Again, the main attraction is that for relatively small money and space, Grammy and Grandad get a fantastic resource for bonding with children.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Andrew Lang’s “The Green Fairy Book” is a certain must-have simply because of the variety of the tales. Many are comfortable, familiar, and traditional while others had certain writers and are a small less well-known. It’s a fantastic and enjoyable mix of tale titles; but, I was a small dissapointed that too many of the tales were essentially the same. I realize that this happens regularly in fairy tales, but it’s still preferable to keep them out of the same book.
Additional than that, this is another fairy tale masterpiece for fans of the Lang collection.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
The Green Fairy Book has tales from Spanish and Chinese traditions and a few written by the Comte de Caylus. Also tales by Sebillot, Fenelon, Kletke, Mme. de’Aulnoy, and the Brothers Grimm. Includes The Bue Bird, Sylvain and Jocos, Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla, The Three Small Pigs, and The Half-Chick. 42 tales.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5