eirenophile's review against another edition
5.0
So I recently reread it, but I cut my eyeteeth on it which is probably why I love it so much. That said, so many great stories that I now force my husband to suffer through before allowing him to fall asleep at night.
kikiandarrowsfishshelf's review
3.0
This collection includes several tales that I have read elsewhere. While most of the tales have a line at the end of story saying that heroine married, becoming a wife is not the quest of these stories. The collection also shows different types of women doing things in different ways.
veganemelda's review
3.0
I was never huge into fairy tales as a child, but I think I would appreciated this collection greatly had I been. I can imagine these lesser-known and reworked traditional fairy tales are great for bedtime stories for younger children, and broken up enough to keep the attention of an independent reader to whom illustrations are not terribly important (in that not every story has one, they are nice in and of themselves). A great stepping stone for parents & children bored with the standard fairy tales, but not yet ready to tackle the more gruesome original tellings. While the stories have strong women from around the world, it is white-european centric. I did not appreciate the two tales labeled "Native American." Seriously, no research on which tribe(s) the tales came from? And it was very heterocentric/marriage oriented.
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