aotora's review
3.0
This was a short and sweet sort of in-between a few more serious and longer books I plan on reading this year.
I always have troubles rating multiple stories books but this one gets a nice and even 3 stars because I liked some stories and didn't care about the others- I've only heard about 6 out of 12 stories before but here we go:
Princess and the pea- short and sweet, almost too short. This one is only two pages long and barely anything happens.
Thumbelina: This one was nice, though I kind of feel sad for the poor adoptive mother - her child goes missing and she is just never mentioned again.
The Emperor's new clothes- Nice and short stories + I loved the characters.
The little mermaid- I knew that this one was much sadder than Disney version and I knew that it doesn't end that nicely but man I still didn't expect this sort of messed up ending - at least it's somewhat nice compared to original, original.
The steadfast tin solider- tbh I didn't really care for this one. It was just there. It was fine.
The Nightingale- I really liked this one. Haven't heard this one before so this was refreshing, it's a really nice, short and sweet story about a bird and a man.
The ugly duckling- You just have to love this one.
The snow queen- I honestly didn't expect so many religious undertones- but it wasn't horrible- it wasn't good either. At least not my cup of tea.
The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep- Another nice and short one- not too bad, not too good.
The Happy family - this one was just weird to me- I liked the characters well enough but the fact that they hoped to be eaten one day just creeped me out.
The Goblin at the grocer's- another mediocre one I didn't really care about
Dance, Dolly, Dance- another really short one - the poem was really nice, the story was just okay though.
All in all, nice short read- I read a lot of new stories I haven't heard before so that was nice :)
I always have troubles rating multiple stories books but this one gets a nice and even 3 stars because I liked some stories and didn't care about the others- I've only heard about 6 out of 12 stories before but here we go:
Princess and the pea- short and sweet, almost too short. This one is only two pages long and barely anything happens.
Thumbelina: This one was nice, though I kind of feel sad for the poor adoptive mother - her child goes missing and she is just never mentioned again.
The Emperor's new clothes- Nice and short stories + I loved the characters.
The little mermaid- I knew that this one was much sadder than Disney version and I knew that it doesn't end that nicely but man I still didn't expect this sort of messed up ending - at least it's somewhat nice compared to original, original.
The steadfast tin solider- tbh I didn't really care for this one. It was just there. It was fine.
The Nightingale- I really liked this one. Haven't heard this one before so this was refreshing, it's a really nice, short and sweet story about a bird and a man.
The ugly duckling- You just have to love this one.
The snow queen- I honestly didn't expect so many religious undertones- but it wasn't horrible- it wasn't good either. At least not my cup of tea.
The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep- Another nice and short one- not too bad, not too good.
The Happy family - this one was just weird to me- I liked the characters well enough but the fact that they hoped to be eaten one day just creeped me out.
The Goblin at the grocer's- another mediocre one I didn't really care about
Dance, Dolly, Dance- another really short one - the poem was really nice, the story was just okay though.
All in all, nice short read- I read a lot of new stories I haven't heard before so that was nice :)
frances_payne's review
3.0
3.5
I listened to the audio book and I don't know what version I was listening to, but it didn't include some classics I really want to read such as The Little Mermaid and Thumbelina. However, there were some of what I thought were really beautiful stories in my version which I also felt had a spark of originality lacking in a huge number of classic fairy tales. On the other hand, some of the moral undertones of the stories were so outdated that it was difficult to enjoy these.
I listened to the audio book and I don't know what version I was listening to, but it didn't include some classics I really want to read such as The Little Mermaid and Thumbelina. However, there were some of what I thought were really beautiful stories in my version which I also felt had a spark of originality lacking in a huge number of classic fairy tales. On the other hand, some of the moral undertones of the stories were so outdated that it was difficult to enjoy these.
yasminreads's review against another edition
Contains racist and xenophobic comments and attitudes.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia
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