aotora's review against another edition
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 against another edition
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.
yusra_should_be_reading_rn's review against another edition
3.0
What I expected interesting but won't pick up again...
angisnowflake's review against another edition
4.0
I very much love most of his fairy tales in this book. My favorite still is the snow queen. I just dearly love the story about Gerda going through lots of hardships to get back her beloved one.
Something else I absolutely loved about this book is that you get a little introduction to the life of Hans Christian Anders. That makes me want to read more about him.
By the way I don’t like every fairy tale in this book, therefore not a full 5 stars.
Something else I absolutely loved about this book is that you get a little introduction to the life of Hans Christian Anders. That makes me want to read more about him.
By the way I don’t like every fairy tale in this book, therefore not a full 5 stars.
yasminreads's review
Contains racist and xenophobic comments and attitudes.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism and Xenophobia
wetdryvac's review
5.0
Brain fried on Rackham by this point - I'm working with the art as part of a project - but every time I think, "This is going to start hurting," It gets fun again instead. This book is a charming case in point. And creepy.
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