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A review by ketutar
The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
4.0
I have always loved fairy tales, and ferociously and ravenously devoured all I could get my greedy hands on. Among others, I read the Bible at the tender age of 8-9, because it was a fairy tale book to me. A boring one, though, but there were a couple of good stories there. Anyway, I didn't know anything about Andrew Lang before I was an adult, and the colored fairy books were on the yearly book sale in Sweden. As far as I know, these books haven't been translated into Finnish. I find it very odd, but now I can read both Swedish and English, so I have been grazing through these and others. There's a LOT of fairy tale books in the public domain in English, as they were in fashion during the Victorian times.
Another thing that surprised me was that I haven't read the Pink Fairy Book before now. It has always been "Uh, it's always there, I can read it later", and go read something else instead.
The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913, of which 12 are fairy books, collections of fairy tales from all over the world. In the first one, the Blue Fairy Book, there's both Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood, and the Beauty and the Beast, in the second one there's Snow White and Rapunzel.
This, the Pink Fairy Book, is #5 in the series. There's a lot of Danish fairy tales in this one, HC Andersen and Danish folk tales.
There are also some pretty horrible animal stories. About a jackal who pretends to be a nanny to eat a panther's cubs, and then drowns her, when she starts asking questions; about a rabbit who boils hyenas alive, etc.
Another thing that surprised me was that I haven't read the Pink Fairy Book before now. It has always been "Uh, it's always there, I can read it later", and go read something else instead.
The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913, of which 12 are fairy books, collections of fairy tales from all over the world. In the first one, the Blue Fairy Book, there's both Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood, and the Beauty and the Beast, in the second one there's Snow White and Rapunzel.
This, the Pink Fairy Book, is #5 in the series. There's a lot of Danish fairy tales in this one, HC Andersen and Danish folk tales.
There are also some pretty horrible animal stories. About a jackal who pretends to be a nanny to eat a panther's cubs, and then drowns her, when she starts asking questions; about a rabbit who boils hyenas alive, etc.