A First Book of Fairy Tales

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I think this is a good book to keep close to bed, in case you don't really feel like reading anything too long or engaging. Children are roasted in oven and fed into their own unsuspecting fathers by, normally, their stepmothers. She adapted a number of her short stories for radio and wrote two original radio dramas on Richard Dadd and Ronald Firbank. If you want to marry a prince, you need to be one of four things: a) pretty, b) smart, c) pretty and smart, or d) grown from a plant.

All of the tales center around women, and the stories are organized into little sections, such as 'Clever Women', 'Mothers and Daughters' and of course 'Witches'.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan and Wendy will delight young readers in this stunning large-format Folio edition with Debra McFarlane’s nostalgic etchings. She got it for Christmas when she was 3, and sat down and listened to the whole thing in one sitting.

Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Fairy tales are such a fun way to tell a story: they’ve been evolving so long, so they’re flexible, and they’re so familiar that when you make a change, it’s obvious what that change was and what you want to highlight. Probably best as a coffee table book for the occasional pickup and journey into the land of the strange. It suggests that a theory of storytelling focused on protagonists solving problems might be missing the possibility that villains are often the central figure of interest in the stories.Each tale is linked with a specific place or county in England: 'The Dragon Castle' from Northumberland, 'The Girl Snatched By Fairies' from County Durham, 'The Princess and the Fool' from Kent and 'The Dark Moon' from Lincolnshire.