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Dear Mili

Wilhelm Grimm,

Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)

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Mar 24, 2018 Melki rated it it was ok · review of another edition

Shelves: folk-fairy-tales

From the Grimm brothers I expect dark fantasies - scary forests, witches, evil stepmothers. I don't expect to be miserably depressed after reading one of their tales . . . but I felt like hitting the bottle after reading this one. And the story is so laced with references to God and the Christ Child, it could have been written by James C. Dobson. Sendak's illustrations are lovely, but they can't save this bleak tale of woe.

Perhaps Jacob Grimm was the imaginative brother . . . ...more

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Apr 10, 2010 Ronyell rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-in-2010, maurice-sendak, fairy-tales-folktales, german-books

"Dear Mili" is a story written by Wilhelm Grimm and illustrated by popular children's author Maurice Sendak that is regarded as being a lost story since we are never introduced to this tale in the original collection of the Brothers Grimm. This tale is about how a widow had to let her daughter go into the fierce wilderness in order to save her from the violence of the war that was raging in that country.

What was so surprising about this book was that this was the only tale from the Brothers Grim ...more

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