Wonder Tales: Six French Stories of Enchantment in Into the Forest

Mar 26, 2010 Christine rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: myth-and-lore-french, diverse-and-women-authors, asbyatt, literature-french

There are thrills that you can get from reading a book. There is the thrill of a totally mind numbing, heart stopping good book. The thrill one gets from reading a beloved book yet again. Then there is a different thrill. The wow, the author likes it too thrill.

That's what happened here.

I've read four of these tales before. My favorite French fairy tale is included in this volumne.

It's "The Great Green Wurm".

I get the book and see, to my surprise, that A.S. Byatt translated one of the stories. I ...more

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Oct 28, 2017 Jalilah rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: folk-fairy-tales

I highly recommend this book not only to fairy tale aficionados, but also to people who want to learn more about the 17th Century French salon writers. I did not know about them until I joined the Into the Forest group here on Goodreads. In this collection are some lesser known tales with the White Cat being the only one I was familiar with. The Historical background of the mainly female writers is especially interesting and leads to a greater appreciation of their tales.

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Jan 18, 2018 Rachel rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: based-on-fairy-tales-myths-etc, children-s, fantasy, fiction, short-story, into-the-forest-2018-challenge

This is NOT a bad book, but it's not as easy as others make it out to be.

Most people will pick up a "fairy tale" book because they have kids or want an easy read. Most kids will be bored by this book. Just being honest. The stories are long winded and can take awhile to get to the point. That doesn't mean they are bad. They're actually really enjoyable stories. You just have to be prepared to spend some time reading them.

Now to the point... Wonder Tales is a collection of "fairy" tales told in ...more

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