The World's Best Fairy Tales

I received this as a child and it is still one of my favorite books. I have read these stories countless times myself, and have read them to many children over the years. This is a collection that anyone with an imagination can appreciate!

How I loved these books when I was a kid! I had both Volume 1 and Volume 2. I still have Volume 1 which I have just found in a cupboard now and which prompted me to seek out my long lost Volume 2 online! Volume 2 has disappeared in the sands of time but I have Volume 1 here! I am 27 now and first got my two volumes when I was about 5 which would be around 1984. I was an early reader (about 3) and so my parents knew buying me them would be an investment! I devoured them and have done ever since!! I love the opening to the Little Mermaid, something like "Far far away...where the sea is as blue as the bluest cornflower" SO beautiful and poetic! And the illustrations too! I don't really have a favourite story, maybe the Snow Queen. I loved Snow White and Rose Red, and that one about the 12 dancing princesses who disappear to a secret place at night and dance with 12 princes! I have been influenced by these volumes to the point where I now write childrens fiction!! God bless you all Mr Andersen and Messrs Grimm!!

I was looking for the big red hardback edition because I remembered it from elementary school when I'd check it out ALL THE TIME from the school library. And I stumbled on it today at a used bookstore in the SPrings. I was so excited! This is a fun, fun, fun book with all its pictures and stories galore! The absolute best, nostalgic fairy tale book and I am so excited to have it in my collection! Its just like I remembered! I love these stories, Bluebeard STILL freaks me out! Love, LOVE this book, if you only get ONE fairy tale book for you, your kid, or someone else, get this one!!!!

This large book has accompanied me through my childhood and to this day, I still read it. It's filled with the best fairy tales. The best part is that they're all still fun to read again and again. Fairy tales aren't limited to little kids, and this collection proves it. They're not all Disney either, some are downright gruesome! (The Brothers Grimm at their best!) There's so much to say about this collection of tales, yet I can't find the right words. Let me tell you that reading this as a child or an adult is a truly magical experience and I'll leave it at that.

My brother and sister and I read this book every summer. These fairy tales in their uncommercialized quality opened up a whole world of original tales that kids today are never going to find in their movies and condensed books. So beautiful.