Preface to Volume I of the first edition of the Grimms' Children's Stories and Household Talesģ. The Children Living in a Time of Famineġ. How Children Played Butcher with Each Otherħ. The Magic Table, the Gold Donkey, and the Club in the SackĤ. A Fairy Tale about a Boy Who Left Home to Learn about Fearġ7. Reading the Grimms' Children's Stories and Household Tales: Origins and Cultural Effects of the CollectionĢ. I looked at the name on the cover and wasn't sure if it meant that these stories were grim (which they certainly were) or if that was the name of the authors (which seemed like a scary coincidence). Speaking of grim stories: Was anyone else confused as a child by the coincidence of grim and Grimm? I remember starting a collection of the stories when I was young, and having to close it unfinished - too much cannibalism, too many chopped-off heads. Maria Tatar included my favorite story, the clunkily titled "A Fairy Tale about a Boy Who Left Home to Learn about Fear " but I loved reading grim stories that were new to me like "Godfather Death," "The Hand With The Knife," "How Children Played Butcher With Each Other," and the single-paragraph "The Stubborn Child" (hint: he does *not* come to a good end).
The most famous tales rub shoulders with more obscure offerings.
So we're enjoying this collection and its introduction and footnotes. Also, he's old enough to be interested in the origin story of these stories as well as the stories themselves. So he's not as fairy-tale literate as I was at his age. I keep forgetting that my son is having a different childhood than I had, and that he didn't spend asthmatic afternoons stuck in bed with books. This book is a treasure on many levels: the early appreciation of fantasy from childhood, the historical implications of the tales, the psychology that.
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