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MY GRADE: B
SYNOPSIS: Omnibus edition including the previously published books: Dean's Gift Book of Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales, Janet & Anne Grahame Johnstone Gift Book of Fairy Tales, Dean's Gift Book of Fairy Tales, The White Cat.
Contains the stories: Little Red Riding Hood, Mother Goose, Hop O' My Thumb, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, Rumpelstiltskin, Jack and the Beanstalk, The Frog Prince, The Princess and the Pea, The White Cat, Little Ida's Flowers, Ole Lucköie or the Dustman, Thumbelina, The Top and the Ball, The Darning Needle, Blockhead Hans, Babes in the Wood, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Tom Thumb, Hansel and Gretel, Beauty and the Beast.
MY THOUGHTS: This is beautifully illustrated in full color and it's very colorful. Every single page has illustrations on it. It's a large hardcover without dust jacket. Most of the faces on the people are ugly. Most of the children have large heads, big eyes, and the boys have feminine faces and longish hair. Here's one example of a boy. The faces on Hansel and Gretel are hideous. I strongly dislike the artists giving the Princess from The Frog Prince large breasts and cleavage.
A big chunk of story was left out of Hop O' My Thumb, the entire part where the brothers stay with a woman and her ogre husband, and the husband mistakenly murders his daughters thinking he's murdering the brothers.
The grandmother wasn't eaten in Little Red Riding Hood and instead escaped out the back door! Ridiculous.
Most versions of Hansel and Gretel that I've read have the stepmother in the story, not the biological mother, but this version used their real mother, which is how I prefer the story.
Rumpelstiltskin doesn't tear himself in two in this version. For leaving out or changing parts of these classic stories I rate this 4 stars and not five.
Below is my favorite image from inside the book. You can see more images here.
Below is my favorite image from inside the book. You can see more images here.
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