GENRE: Children's Fiction
ALL IMAGES: linkMY GRADE: A
SYNOPSIS: Volume 2 of a two-volume fairy tale anthology. All the best loved and remembered tales.
Includes: Jorinda and Joringel, Puss in Boots, The Emperor's New Clothes, Billy Beg and His Bull, Little One Eye, Little Two Eyes and Little Three Eyes, The Red Shoes, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, Snegourka, the Snow Maiden, The Three Little Pigs, The Shoemaker and the Elves, Doctor Know-It-All, The Six Swans, Dick Whittington and His Cat, Rapunzel, Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, The Three Bears, Rumpelstiltskin, The Golden-Headed Fish, Hansel and Gretel, The Brave Little Tailor, The Gingerbread Man, A Horned Goat, Seven Simons, The Little Match Girl, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, The Musicians of Bremen, Blue Beard, The Princess on Glass Hill, The Half-Chick, Sleeping Beauty, The Magic Carpet, Jack the Giant Killer, Twelve Dancing Princesses, Little Claus and Big Claus, The Colony of Cats, Sinbad the Sailor.
MY THOUGHTS: This is the second volume to the one I reviewed previously. Each story, some are common fairy tales, some are just stories, has a full color, full page illustration. This volume had a few more stories and weighs slightly less than the first volume. Like I said of the previous one, the stories in here are hit or miss. I'm disappointed in myself for skipping three of the longer stories. They didn't hold my interest and I didn't want to waste time on them. My favorites are: Jorinda and Joringle, Hansel and Gretel, The Gingerbread Man, Bluebeard, which has no business being in a children's book, The Little Match Girl, The Red Shoes, and The Steadfast Tin Soldier. The most morbid ones are Bluebeard and Little Claus and Big Claus with The Red Shoes runner-up.
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