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by Charles Perrault (Author), Gustave Dore (Author, Illustrator), A.E. Johnson (Translator) "ONCE UPON A TIME there lived a king and queen who were grieved, more grieved than words can tell, because they had no children ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 117 pages
  • Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.; New impression edition (1 Feb 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0486223116
  • ISBN-13: 978-0486223117
  • Product Dimensions: 27.2 x 20.3 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 147,011 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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An illustrated collection of eight world famous fairy tales, including Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Little Red Riding Hood.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, 4 Jul 2006
This book is lovely, but not really suitable for younger children. The pictures are wonderful pencil drawings and the stories seem to be original tales, with no Jazzy endings thrown in.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant Horror, 6 Dec 2007
By M. E. Harvey "bubu_60" (Lancs UK) - See all my reviews
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This is a splendid edition of Perraults Fairy Tales. However, I would suggest that it's an edition more suitable for adults interested in illustration than one for children. Dore's engavings are brilliant but horrifying. Like the picture of the ogre about to murder the children in "Tom Thumb". And those for "Little Red Riding Hood" with a very scary wolf sharing a bed with LRRH. However, those for The Sleeping Beauty are absolutely enchanting. This is a book for anyone with even the remotest interest in fairy tales, or the art of illustration.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Darker Fairy Tales Than I Remembered, 30 Jan 2009
This review is from: Perrault's Fairy Tales (Wordsworth Childrens Classics) (Paperback)
I tucked myself up in bed with the delights of `The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood' imagine my horror that this was not the `Sleeping Beauty' by Ladybird that I had read when I was little. I mean back then she pricked her finger slept for a hundred years and was woken, along with the court and her parents, by a handsome prince who fought through thorns to find her... the end.

He didn't then keep it a secret from his family and travel back and forth until one day his father died and he was King, then announcing his wife and two children. He also didn't go to war and leave the mother in law Queen with Sleeping Beauty, the mother in law being half-giant and demanding she eat both her grandchildren and her daughter in law. There wasn't a nice man who saved them all and hid them only to be found out. The prince didn't return just as his mother had filled a cauldron with snakes and other delights over a fire to kill them all with, rescue them and chuck his mum in. Well do you know what in the original all that did happen, well it really did. I was shocked.

I felt like I had found `Fairy Tales: Uncut' and as an adult I felt like I had been let into a new secret. I actually like the darker twists for example the fact that Little Red Riding Hood gets eaten and that's that the wolf gets away scot free. I rediscovered Puss in Boots which I loved and Tom Thumb which I still don't like along with Cinderella these stayed true to form. I also found some new ones that I loved such as Donkey Skin, The Fairies and the gore fest that was Blue Beard. Plus some new ones I didn't like The Ridiculous Wishes which was ridiculous and Patient Griselda which Germaine Greer would hate, it makes women out to be completely stupid and that they will put up with anything.

I also liked the `moral of the story' although for some of them like `beware the words of wolves' were a bit vague and some of them should clearly have been re-written `the moral of the story is beware all mother in laws'. I have thoroughly enjoyed going back to my childhood in an odd way and discovering some more of the darker secrets surrounding some of my favourite old tales. Oh, I have just realised, I have really enjoyed some truly old classics.
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4.0 out of 5 stars A must have
This is a must have book if you are interested in fairy tales. I especially enjoyed the morals which are written in rhyming verse at the end of each story, my favourite was the... Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Very Good
The tales themselves are, of course, beautiful, and appear in a large well-spaced font, so children should be well able to read them. Read more
Published on 3 Dec 2006 by S. O'Donnell

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