The Pink Fairy Book
Where to buy The Pink Fairy Book books online?
Product Description
Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings in English courses. By using a running thesaurus at the bottom of each page, this edition of The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang was edited for students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT¿, SAT¿, AP¿ (Advanced Placement¿), GRE¿, LSAT¿, GMAT¿ or similar examinations.
PSAT¿ is a registered trademark of the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Merit Erudition Corporation neither of which sponsors or endorses this book; SAT¿ is a registered trademark of the College Board which neither sponsors nor endorses this book; GRE¿, AP¿ and Advanced Placement¿ are registered trademarks of the Educational Hard Service which neither sponsors nor endorses this book, GMAT¿ is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admissions Council which is neither affiliated with this book nor endorses this book, LSAT¿ is a registered trademark of the Law School Admissions Council which neither sponsors nor endorses this product. All rights modest.
Buy Cheap The Pink Fairy Book Online
Related posts:
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
There are 12 volumes in Lang’s series and this one collects fairytales from Japan, France and Denmark. The glee in taking the terrible guy to task and mystically meeting goblins and princesses will delight all ages of classic lit. readers. A.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I recomend the Pink Fairy Book to parents teachers and children. It has a lot of lessons and morales an gives children an exelent experience in classical literature.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
It has been awhile since I had thought about my quest to read all of Andrew Lang’s color fairy books. If I’m right, this completes it, and I will say that I was painstakingly impressed with this collection that pretty much avoids Grimm while getting the juciest of Hans Christian Andersen and a multi-cultural array of additional tales, from humerous animal tales to hilarious folktales, to daring and imaginative tales of fairies and princesses and goblins.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
Having a perfect collection of the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales, I was a small disappointed when I opened this book and establish so many tales with which I was familiar. But as I read further along, I establish additional tales translated from Danish, French, Swedish, German, and Japanese. I have certainly establish some new favorites with this collection, especially in the few Japanese tales. Uraschimataro and the Turtle is wonderful. I also loved Peter Bull! I wish there were more Japanese tales but, as this is the first volume of this collection I have read, I am hopeful to find more in another one of the series. Depending on your existing collection of fairy tales, this may not be a must-own but it is certainly a must-read.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5