GENRE: Children's Fiction
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MY GRADE: A
MY THOUGHTS: From the photos I've been able to find online, this book appears to be a compilation of his 1977 book "Eric and Lucy Kincaid's Omnibus of Nursery Rhymes", later retitled "Eric Kincaid's Nursery Rhymes", and his 1978 book "Book of Classic Fairy Tales." There are several other compilation editions too, some containing rhymes/fairy tales not in this edition. I knew by the looks of some of the illustrations that they were from the late 1960s/1970s so wasn't surprised to find they were actually from the late 1970s.
MY GRADE: A
Every single page of this book is in full color and filled with illustrations. Every color you can think of is used though I didn't really give a good representation of that. I don't like that we're not told the orgin of each story/rhyme, like who authored it and when. Eric is the illustrator and I guess his wife retold the tales but it doesn't say inside the book. Most of the rhymes don't make a lick of sense and are just plain odd, like this one called "bow wow wow", "Bow wow wow, whose dog art thou? Little Tom Tinker's dog, bow wow wow." What on earth?
My two favorite stories in here are The White Dove and Jorinda and Joringel. Both contain either a witch or witch-like villian. I'd never heard of The White Dove so I looked into it. It's not the same tale as the Dutch one by that same name nor the French one, which is very different than the Dutch one. This one is about a a girl who flees her coach as it's about to be robbed. She ends up in the woods and a white dove gives her keys which unlocks doors in a tree that contains food and a bed. Later she has to go deep into the woods into the cottage of an old woman to retrieve a gold ring that will turn the dove back into a prince. He's been turned into a tree but because he's a prince, the witch lets him transform into a dove and is allowed to fly for two hours per day. Upon further research I see this is the same story as The Old Woman in the Wood by the Brothers Grimm. Jorinda and Joringel is a Brothers Grimm story too and I knew that one.
I'll leave you with the best photo of all:
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