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Title	:	The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
Author	:	Maria Tatar
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 445 pages
Published	:	October 17th 2002 by W. W. Norton Company
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fairy Tales. Classics. Fiction. Short Stories. Folklore

The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales

Maria Tatar

Hardcover | Pages: 445 pages

Rating: 4.4 | 1471 Users | 72 Reviews

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I usually love the Norton Annotated books, but this one was a disappointment. The first let-down was that Tatar also annotated The Annotated Brothers Grimm and The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, and many of the same fairy tales -- with the same or nearly the same annotations -- are included here. Only about 1/3 of the book is not available elsewhere, mostly Charles Perrault fairy tales. In addition, usually the art reproductions in these books are excellent, but in this case many of them were so small that it was impossible to see any detail (basically, they were thumbnail size), and the reproduction was very dark. Frequently the annotations would mention details in the illustrations that were difficult or downright impossible to see!

This is a fairly good collection if you haven't already read the Grimm and Andersen books, but otherwise it's definitely not one I would recommend purchasing. I really wish Tatar had just done an "Annotated Charles Perrault" or "Annotated French Fairy Tales" instead of this somewhat lazy and slapdash volume.

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Original Title:	The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
ISBN:	0393051633 (ISBN13: 9780393051636)
Edition Language:	English

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Though the title says "... classic fairy tales", this book is not really for children. In fact it is for those (say, adults) who love the classic fairy tales and want to learn about the history of those fairy tales.Very surprising and eye-opening to read the facts and reasons behind why some of those stories were made/told. Some even so dark and gory that I agree with the editor that such stories were not really for children:)

This is a great book to have if you're obsessed with fairy tales (like me) and love hearing about how they started, and about the psychological effects they have on children. This was a very interesting read. The pictures are nice too!

As repositories of a collective cultural consciousness and unconscious, fairy tales have attracted the attention of psychologists, more notably the renowned child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim. In his landmark study, The Use of Enchantment, Bettelheim argued that fairy tales have a powerful therapeutic value, teaching children that "a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoiable." (introduction, xiii)Over the past decades child psychologists have mobilized fairy tales as powerful



I really enjoyed reading this annotated edition of some of the classic fairy tales. I liked how their were different versions of many of the stories, with bits and pieces being changed. I also liked the many illustrations by various people, which was nice to have alongside the stories.

I loved this collection of fairy tales and all the explanations of details of the stories and biographies on the authors/illustrators. I also loved the wide variety of illustrations for each story.

One of my goals for 2012 is to re-read the classics from my youth. I decided to start with fairy tales.