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Frog Prince
An enchanted frog agrees to retrieve a golden ball from the pond for the princess if she will promise to let him sit on her chair, share her food, and lie on her bed
24 pages, Hardcover
Published June 21, 1981
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About the author
Jacob Grimm
5,749 books2,259 followersGerman philologist and folklorist Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm in 1822 formulated Grimm's Law, the basis for much of modern comparative linguistics. With his brother Wilhelm Karl Grimm (1786-1859), he collected Germanic folk tales and published them as
Grimm's Fairy Tales
(1812-1815).
Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.
This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .
Adapted from Wikipedia.
Indo-European stop consonants, represented in Germanic, underwent the regular changes that Grimm's Law describes; this law essentially states that Indo-European p shifted to Germanic f, t shifted to th, and k shifted to h. Indo-European b shifted to Germanic p, d shifted to t, and g shifted to k. Indo-European bh shifted to Germanic b, dh shifted to d, and gh shifted to g.
This jurist and mythologist also authored the monumental German Dictionary and his Deutsche Mythologie .
Adapted from Wikipedia.
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January 19, 2025
This was perhaps the worst fairytale I’ve ever read. The illustrations were the only decent thing about it.
The princess who looks like a young woman and yet is playing with a golden ball like a child, drops it into a pond but couldn’t get it and starts crying. A frog shows up and asks what’s wrong and she tells him she can’t get her ball. The frog offers to get it if she promises to let the frog sit on her chair, share her food with him, and let him lay on her bed. She promises of course she will. He gets it and she dances away with the ball, seemingly without a thank you, and forgets all about her promise and the frog.
The frog shows up at the palace the next day and the princess asks what’s wrong he’s doing there. She tells him to go back to the garden, that she doesn’t like him. She hides behind her dad and asks him to make the frog go away.
Thankfully her dad isn’t as terrible as she is, and he makes her keep her promises.
Her father has to make her do each promise. She sits him in the chair but sits far away from him. She carries him to her room but doesn’t want him on her bed and shuts the door so no one sees. The frog threatens to tell the king she hasn’t kept her promise. And the princess cries like a child and like this is the most terrible thing in the world to be expected to do.
She says she let him sit on her chair, and shared her food with him, does she really have to let him lay on her bed? She throws him across the room and he lands on her pillow and she keeps crying like a big baby.
The frog turns into a prince - of course - and wipes her tears away, saying by keeping her promises she broke a spell cast by a wicked witch, and they can both live happily ever after.
Here’s the problem. Who would want to live with her?? There certainly won’t be a happily ever after. She’s horrible! And really, she didn’t keep her promises. She was forced to do it.
The whole thing was odd, the promises, the fact that promises broke a spell and not a kiss.
She learned nothing. She was spoiled and remained that way and then got a prince for being a brat! Great lesson there.
This is going back to the bookshop it came from.
The princess who looks like a young woman and yet is playing with a golden ball like a child, drops it into a pond but couldn’t get it and starts crying. A frog shows up and asks what’s wrong and she tells him she can’t get her ball. The frog offers to get it if she promises to let the frog sit on her chair, share her food with him, and let him lay on her bed. She promises of course she will. He gets it and she dances away with the ball, seemingly without a thank you, and forgets all about her promise and the frog.
The frog shows up at the palace the next day and the princess asks what’s wrong he’s doing there. She tells him to go back to the garden, that she doesn’t like him. She hides behind her dad and asks him to make the frog go away.
Thankfully her dad isn’t as terrible as she is, and he makes her keep her promises.
Her father has to make her do each promise. She sits him in the chair but sits far away from him. She carries him to her room but doesn’t want him on her bed and shuts the door so no one sees. The frog threatens to tell the king she hasn’t kept her promise. And the princess cries like a child and like this is the most terrible thing in the world to be expected to do.
She says she let him sit on her chair, and shared her food with him, does she really have to let him lay on her bed? She throws him across the room and he lands on her pillow and she keeps crying like a big baby.
The frog turns into a prince - of course - and wipes her tears away, saying by keeping her promises she broke a spell cast by a wicked witch, and they can both live happily ever after.
Here’s the problem. Who would want to live with her?? There certainly won’t be a happily ever after. She’s horrible! And really, she didn’t keep her promises. She was forced to do it.
The whole thing was odd, the promises, the fact that promises broke a spell and not a kiss.
She learned nothing. She was spoiled and remained that way and then got a prince for being a brat! Great lesson there.
This is going back to the bookshop it came from.
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February 8, 2021
This is the story of a cursed prince who resembles a frog and a spoiled princess that needs to look upon him with eyes of love.
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