A First Book of Fairy Tales

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Un libro muy interesante que contiene una serie de cuentos tradicionales de diferentes partes del mundo (me encantó el detalle de que especificase el país de cada uno). Wicked queens, blushing princesses and charming princes abound in the Folio Society’s beautiful collection of fairy tale books.

This story book has only a few pictures for each story, but the stories all have a little bit of a twist in comparison to the movies most children have seen. The first adventure in the Folio Society editions of ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ series, Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood features Jonathan Burton’s enchanting illustrations and a new introduction by Michael Morpurgo. On the one hand it's a great book to read alongside other books as it is full of short stories so you can just pick it up and read a quick story and it won't disturb whatever else your reading.A magnificent collection, which manages to effectively capture the 'voice' of the various places the tales are gathered from. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. So many cultures are represented and united in this gorgeous book - and only a few tales were known to me beforehand. Two orphaned peasant children, Pia and Enzio, find a pouch, stolen from the King and dropped in their path. I sometimes add edits on the spot ("And after they had many conversations during which they realized how compatible they were, and found they shared many core values, they decided to get married!

His romantic stories rank among the greats, including Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Beauty and the Beast. No obstante, me gustó más otro libro que leí de la autora el año pasado, La cámara sangrienta, que sí tenía relatos originales escritos por ella, retellings siniestros. A lot of them are a bit nursery rhyme-ish (especially true of the humorous ones, which often seem to get left out of other such collections), in so far as they tend to reach fairly neat endings that are often pretty close to "happily ever after," and their general logic is pretty . If your child loves Disney and their princesses such as Rapunzel and Sleeping Beauty, or if they love stories about giants and spells, this children's book would make the perfect gift for them! The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings.We find it makes a wonderful present for a newborn to lull them to sleep with their first introduction to the classic stories. Seamus Heaney’s deeply felt interpretation, widely acknowledged as the greatest Beowulf translation of modern times, is presented in parallel with the Old English verse in this fabulous Folio edition.