Almost two hundred years ago the Grimm brothers published their famous collection of folk tales, including these well-known and much loved stories.Sumptuously illustrated, this collection includes: Little Red Riding Hood; The Frog Prince; Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, Town Musicians of Bremen and many others.
I am extremely fussy about the quality of literature I read to my children. We have a huge bookshelf full of children's books. This one takes the prize on so many levels; 1. Quality and beauty of the writing, its use of poetic words and sentence structure. 2. Not dumbed down for children, therefore challenges their thinking and imagination, while also retaining its original messages about virtues and goodness. 3. Exquisite pictures. 4. Keeps my son's attention more than anything. He has learnt far more from this book than any other. 5. Not boring for adults who have to read the stories unteen times! I have not found a better version of the Grimms fairy tales. Some of the stories do contain some gory details, but if the parent feels they need to, they can easily miss a paragraph without losing content. After reading Archipova's fairy-tale versions, it's difficult to return to other books, since everything else thereafter sounds inferior to the ear!
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