kundor's review
3.0
A collection of stories, essays, and a few poems which add up to a meditation on fairy tales. The essays convince me that I need to make sure my son is exposed to real fairy tales early and often. The stories are well-told and immersive fairy tales, either old ones or new riffs, which remind me of how deep the stories can be when really "told." Lately I have seen fairly tales mostly in Bulfinch or other collections where we get bare-bones tales, a collection of events which seem bare, disjointed, and bizarre; or translations from Perrault, which have been formulaic and boring. This book reminds me that it's not the stories that are at fault.
More...