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ashlurtis's review
adventurous
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
I don't read folktales on a regular basis, but picked this up as part of my library's reading challenge this year. I have a lot of Norwegian ancestry so I thought it would be interesting to check out some of the culture with the folktales.
This book has a nice intro that gives some background and context to the stories and collection that I found helpful. As someone who isn't well versed in the genre, I found the repetition to be a little overwhelming by the first few stories. I think this book could have been much shorter as quite a few stories had the same overall plot and made them less interesting to me.
The illustrations are meant to be authentic to the original Norwegian illustrations, but didn't add too much to the book overall for me. This is a fun read, but doesn't make me necessarily more inclined to read more folktales.
This book has a nice intro that gives some background and context to the stories and collection that I found helpful. As someone who isn't well versed in the genre, I found the repetition to be a little overwhelming by the first few stories. I think this book could have been much shorter as quite a few stories had the same overall plot and made them less interesting to me.
The illustrations are meant to be authentic to the original Norwegian illustrations, but didn't add too much to the book overall for me. This is a fun read, but doesn't make me necessarily more inclined to read more folktales.
mogar_pogar's review
adventurous
challenging
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? N/A
- Loveable characters? N/A
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
warriorpickle's review
3.0
3.5 Stars
Once on a time there was a boy named Caleb. Caleb was part Norwegian and was always fascinated with that part of himself. So, one day Caleb, decided to take the Norwegian folktale book from his parents house and finally read it. He had been looking at it for far to long and he finally decided to man up and read the whole thing from cover to cover no matter how long it would take. Because truly this young boy did enjoy folktales as well as fairy tales no matter the origin.
Young Caleb found out something about himself while reading his Norwegian folktale book. No, it wasn't that he fell in love with trolls from the stories. Or that he was disgusted that there were plenty of stories that had characters chop their heads off in order to reveal themselves as beautiful princesses. Nay, it wasn't even that Cinderlad happened to be in 80% of the stories. No, it was that having a book of short stories on the side is a wonderful, brilliant thing to do. Especially when he has a monster book that he is reading and needs to take a break from. He found a short story or a folktale every once in a while kept him from going into a book slump.
And after all that he lived well and happily together with his books a long, long, time, and if he's not dead, why, he's alive and reading still.
Once on a time there was a boy named Caleb. Caleb was part Norwegian and was always fascinated with that part of himself. So, one day Caleb, decided to take the Norwegian folktale book from his parents house and finally read it. He had been looking at it for far to long and he finally decided to man up and read the whole thing from cover to cover no matter how long it would take. Because truly this young boy did enjoy folktales as well as fairy tales no matter the origin.
Young Caleb found out something about himself while reading his Norwegian folktale book. No, it wasn't that he fell in love with trolls from the stories. Or that he was disgusted that there were plenty of stories that had characters chop their heads off in order to reveal themselves as beautiful princesses. Nay, it wasn't even that Cinderlad happened to be in 80% of the stories. No, it was that having a book of short stories on the side is a wonderful, brilliant thing to do. Especially when he has a monster book that he is reading and needs to take a break from. He found a short story or a folktale every once in a while kept him from going into a book slump.
And after all that he lived well and happily together with his books a long, long, time, and if he's not dead, why, he's alive and reading still.
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