Perrault's Fairy Tales
by Charles Perrault, Gustave Doré
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When I was very young, my grandmother had a set of very small books with uncut pages. One of the books was an early edition of Charles Perrault's fairy tales with hand-printed woodblock prints. Naturally I cut the pages and read the stories which were bloody and didn't always have nice endings and at least one of the ugly sisters tumbled into a well to be devoured by snakes. These stories, before Disney got them, were wonderful. Children like blood and guts as much as they like marshmallows a...more
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I love this book. It was and still is my favorite fairy tale book ever! Beautifully illustrated! It's a bit scarier than most fairy tale books. This one has "puss in boots", "blue-beard", "The sleeping beauty in the wood", "little red riding hood", "the fairies", "cinderella", "ricky of the tuft", and "little tom thumb". The one thing that I remember was a constant in this book was that little children were always th...more
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Read in March, 2008
"...although this was an ogre who devoured little children, he was by no means a bad husband."
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