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East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon
by
Peter Christen Asbjørnsen,
Jørgen Engebretsen Moe, Naomi Lewis , George Webbe Dasent , P.J. Lynch
"This wondrous tale is brilliantly matched by Lynch's elegant yet accessible watercolors. . . .The best edition now available. Bravo!" —KIRKUS REVIEWS (pointered review)
A beloved Norwegian folktale, EAST O' THE SUN AND WEST O' THE MOON is the romantic story of a bewitched prince and the determined lassie who loves him. It has everything a classic epic tale should have: rag...more
A beloved Norwegian folktale, EAST O' THE SUN AND WEST O' THE MOON is the romantic story of a bewitched prince and the determined lassie who loves him. It has everything a classic epic tale should have: rag...more
Hardcover, 48 pages
Published
February 3rd 2005
by Candlewick Press
(first published 1888)
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Sep 05, 2011
Rain Misoa
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
People who love fairy tales and romance.
Recommended to Rain by:
Ice by Sarah Beth Durst... or the library. You choose!
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fairy-tales
What a delightful little fairy tale! This is my first time reading this fairy tale classic by Peter Christen Asbjornsen and I was not disappointed. I did find myself enjoying it quite a bit. I'll be honest, the main heroine got on my nerves. At first, I though she was a bit shallow but seeing all the trouble she went to find the prince, it really shows how caring and deep of a character she really is. I am in awe at how this fairy tale ended. It was beautiful and the message even better! To thin...more
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I absolutely adore this tale and will certainly buy the book for my child someday. I highly recommend reading this, whether you are a child or an adult. Fair warning: the trolls look somewhat... horrifying.
Through beautiful imagery and descriptions, readers follow a young lassie who leaves her family in order to live with a white bear. Because the young lassie does not follow his advice, she must traverse all around the world in order to save her prince from his destined bride-to-be: an ugly tro...more
Through beautiful imagery and descriptions, readers follow a young lassie who leaves her family in order to live with a white bear. Because the young lassie does not follow his advice, she must traverse all around the world in order to save her prince from his destined bride-to-be: an ugly tro...more
i have not read this book yet. i’m writing this review in response to reading one of the other reviews, the one with the frogs. that story is called the frog prince. and this story is not the story of the frog prince. so to those who have yet to know this story (which is actually very old and spreads across many cultures, its the cupid/ psyche story for those into greek mythology), there will be no frogs in it if you happen to pick it up. the story is a good one though, so i recommend picking u...more
East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon is one of my favourite fairytales, and this is a very faithful telling of it, from the original translation by Dasent. The narrative is conversational and slightly old-fashioned.
The illustrations are lovely, but the lassie looks a bit petulant in some of them. She has this expression -- eyes cast upwards, mouth slightly open -- that suggests a teenager posing for a camera. You can just picture her sighing and saying, "All right, Dad, I'll go with the bear so...more
The illustrations are lovely, but the lassie looks a bit petulant in some of them. She has this expression -- eyes cast upwards, mouth slightly open -- that suggests a teenager posing for a camera. You can just picture her sighing and saying, "All right, Dad, I'll go with the bear so...more
P J Lynch is one of my favourite illustrators, and this is one of my favourite fairy tales. Parts of it sound like Cupid and Psyche, and others like the Russian fairy tale where the girl has to journey to find her lover the falcon. East o' the Sun is the Celtic version of the tale, and the one with my favourite ending: the girl and the prince get on a ship and sail off to have more adventures, together this time.
What sets this book apart is the illustration. P J Lynch and his glowing watercolour...more
What sets this book apart is the illustration. P J Lynch and his glowing watercolour...more
A lovely older translation of the fairy tale, not too mushy or sanitized. The heroine is honorable rather than infatuated, expressing her determination to rescue her husband in terms of keeping her promise rather than finding her true love.
The illustrations are very pretty, if not 100% in line with the text (for instance, she is described as the youngest, but appears much older than several of her siblings, who are shown as children). I found this image particularly interesting:
I guess there is...more
The illustrations are very pretty, if not 100% in line with the text (for instance, she is described as the youngest, but appears much older than several of her siblings, who are shown as children). I found this image particularly interesting:
I guess there is...more
Apr 02, 2011
Dolly
rated it
4 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Recommends it for:
parents reading with their children
This is a marvelous and fascinating tale with gorgeous and amazingly detailed, though somewhat scary, illustrations. We recently read The Princess and the White Bear King by Tanya Robyn Batt and really enjoyed it. Looking on our library online card catalogue, I noticed that there seem to be a lot of versions of this tale. So I decided to read a few more versions to our girls and compare them.
This story was a bit longer and the illustrations were much scarier, but also much more beautiful. The t...more
This story was a bit longer and the illustrations were much scarier, but also much more beautiful. The t...more
One of my favorite folktales, this one's from Norway and is reminiscent of the Greek myth Cupid & Psyche. This is an illustrated edition of the first translation of this tale into English (1859). The illustrations are watercolors by one of my all-time favorite children's book illustrators, PJ Lynch. All-in-all, I'm in love with this book, and I'm totally counting this towards my goal of reading more works-in-translation this year. Call it research, if you will. ;)
I read this book when I was much, much younger. It was a gift from a friend of the family. If I remember correctly, I loved having this story read to me and it has become one of my favourite fairy tales of all time. It's been packed away with other books from my childhood, hiding in an attic in my parents house. When I have children, this will definitely be one of the first books I go looking for to bring home for them.
It's as through they ran the original fairy tales through a gratuitous Hans Christian Andersen filter. It ends up Bowdlerized and vaguely blanded, and the stories slur together after a casual reading. The imagery in the old tales has such potential, too -- this book is dark and beautiful and strangely unfulfilling.
Kirkus Reviews writes that this is the best edition of this story available, and I couldn't agree more. P.J. Lynch's watercolor and guache illustrations are perfection. He may be my favorite illustrator of all times. Lynch actually went to Norway to the National Gallery there to study the scenery and costumes of the story's time. The story itself is a bit of a Scandanavian Beauty and the Beast--which is my favorite fairy tale. Because P.J. Lynch lives in Ireland, some of his books are hard to fi...more
This book is traditional literature taken from an old Norwegian folktale! I noticed many similarities with a Greek and Roman myth. I would consider this book for older children since there are more words. Illustrations are beautiful!
This book was a favorite of mine as a child. Before I could read, I had my mother read it to me on a regular basis. I still have our original copy. It's been read so many times the binding is falling apart.
Really cute fairytales that I am unfamiliar with (though they do bare some resemblance to French, Italian, and British ones). Fun for kids.
My dad used to read this to me before bed each night! I still remember exactly how he said, "East of the sun and west of the moooooon!".
This is my favorite fairy tale. The illustrations are the best in this one! Oh my gosh I love this book!!!
I loved the pictures and loved the tale. My three-year old daughter loved it too.
I learned that we'll have troubles but we have to be steadfast.
I wanted to read the original fairy tale, and I really enjoyed it.
Fabulous illustrations, nice introduction by Naomi.
Reread it today with my daughter. Lovely story.
One of my favorite fairytales.
Absolutely beautiful!
my favorite fairy tale. :)
beautiful art
a beautiful story about nortic people
First, the artwork in this book is beautiful. One of my favorites is when she is being carried by the North Wind.
Second, after the initial read of this book, I wanted to give it only two stars. The story wasn't that great and the characters were not developed at all. But then I read the introduction which explained the stories components and their place in Norwegian folklore. That made the whole story a lot more interesting.
Second, after the initial read of this book, I wanted to give it only two stars. The story wasn't that great and the characters were not developed at all. But then I read the introduction which explained the stories components and their place in Norwegian folklore. That made the whole story a lot more interesting.
Wonderful! Simply wonderful! I love girl power stories and I really enjoy it when the prince is the one doing the role of the damsel in distress.
My favourite Fairy tale as a kid with gorgeous illustrations by PJ Lynch. I'm still absolutely crazy about this.
As a little girl I read a translation of this story that was longer in which the author made more of an adventure out of it. This version seemed shorter and not as interesting. I really loved this story and would have given that version at least 4 stars. Of course,I am also now an adult. What a difference more than 55 years makes!
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Peter Christen Asbjørnsen was a Norwegian writer and scholar. He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore. They were so closely united in their lives' work that their folk tale collections are commonly mentioned only as "Asbjørnsen and Moe".
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