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Title: The Blue Fairy Book by Indy Publications, Andrew Lang ISBN: 1404300163 Publisher: Indypublish.Com Pub. Date: 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $20.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4
Rating: 1
Summary: Be very careful of the publisher of this book!
Comment: I just ordered a number of the Andrew Lang books from Amazon. The Blue Fairy Book arrived yesterday, and I could not have been more disappointed. It came in a very plain blue hardback. I opened it up, and NOWHERE inside is Andrew Lang mentioned, nowhere are any of the illustrations, from either of the two other versions I know. The production quality -- the paper, the binding -- is poor, and the "author" is listed throughout as "Anonymous." The publisher of this book is IndyPublish.com. I don't know the deal, or how they get listed under Andrew Lang, but I recommend that if you want a real Andrew Lang book, don't buy one of the IndyPublish books.
Rating: 4
Summary: Thirty-seven marvellous unadulterated fairy-tales
Comment: Andrew Lang's series of fairy-tale books are some of the fundamental children's reading of the twentieth and late nineteenth century. The stories are not "original": there's no such thing when they were almost without exception passed down orally; but they are in old, not very modernized tellings.
Many readers who have only seen or read modern, Disney-fied versions of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or Snow-White will not recognize some of the darker twists in these tales. For example, in Sleeping Beauty, when the Prince wakes the Princess and marries her, the story is by no means over. The Prince's mother is an Ogress, whom his father married for her wealth, and it's suspected that she likes to eat little children; that "whenever she saw little children passing by, she had all the difficulty in the world to avoid falling upon them". The happy couple have two children, named Day and Morning, and the Ogress decides to dine on them one day when the Prince is away. Yes, it still has a happy ending, but Disney it isn't.
The illustrations--8 full page, plus 130 smaller ones--are all from the original 1891 edition. They're black and white woodcuts; very atmospheric, and I think most children will like them.
The only thing that might have to be explained to a child is the occasional use of vocabulary that is no longer current. Most often this is the use of "thee" and "thou"; but a few other words will crop up. However, they're usually inferable from context, and the stories are marvellous entertainment regardless.
Rating: 5
Summary: Spiffy Collection!
Comment: "The Blue Fairy Book" is amazing. I am planning to collect all of Andrew Lang's color fairy tale books. It has an excellent group of stories from different fairy tale writers, including Perrault, d'Aulnoy, and Grimm. This book was originally printed in the 19th century. It has not been abridged, nor have any of the original pictures been taken out. (Be warned, they're *artistic*) These are the original, unaltered by Disney versions, and contain the nightmarish plots they were meant to have. Anyone who collects fairy tales should have this.
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Title: The Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, Faith Jaques, Henry J. Ford, Lancelot Speed ISBN: 048621673X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 1975 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, Henry J. Ford ISBN: 0486216748 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 1979 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Green Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, Henry J. Ford ISBN: 0486214397 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: The Violet Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, H. J. Lang, Henry J. Ford ISBN: 0486216756 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 1990 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, Henry J. Ford ISBN: 0486217922 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 1985 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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