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 Danielle The Book Huntress
I read this volume both out of my love of this fairy tale variant, but also for a paper I was writing for my folk and fairy tales class. It's interesting to see how the basic story varies in different cultures and countries. I didn't make it all the way through yet, so I will save my final review for when I finish reading this. I liked most of what I read, although the view of female agency in most of these stories is highly problematic. "Kate Crackernuts" turns that on its head, and I appreciat ...more
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Apr 18, 2014 marked it as fairy-tale-collections  ·  review of another edition
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