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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales | Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
Presents a collection of fairy tales from the Brothers Grimm, including "Snow-White and Rose-Red," "Rapunzel," and "King Thrushbeard."
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CogsOfEncouragement
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Day 30 of #scarathlondailyprompts is potion. I borrowed Grimm‘s Fairy Tales from the library several years ago out of curiosity of the original stories so many times retold. I was struck by how incredibly short they all were, often just two pages. People have made lots of money fleshing them out. #TeamSlaughter #scarathlon

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CaroPi
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1. Because I enjoy reading. I love to be able to travel to different worlds with words... A good book is always a good thing
2. My parents. They are also great readers and encourage me to read since I was little.
3. After work, when I travel and when I go to a coffee shop to read. In general when I have the time 😁
#littenswanttoknow

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Great answers ❤️ 2y
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IamIamIam
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales | Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm
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Day 6- #AGrimmADay : Faithful John - a weird one... a king has a faithful servant & on his deathbed tells him to keep a portrait of a princess locked up when his son becomes king. The new king demands to see the locked room and finds the princess of the Golden Dwelling. He immediately falls in love but will die if he tries to find her. He persists and snatches her. John heard ravens talking about what happens when they land and get off the boat ⬇️

IamIamIam Faithful John shoots the horse sent to take them home, burns a bridal garment left out for the king and when the bride falls unconscious at the wedding, he takes her aside and sucks 3 drops of blood from her right breast and spits them out. That's what puts the king over the edge. He's condemned to death but explains what he heard from the ravens and then turns to stone. The queen bears twin son. The king feels guilty and wishes ⬇️ 2y
IamIamIam He could bring John back. The statue says he can cut off his twins' heads and sprinkles the blood on him. The king has no issue with this! 👀 Once John is back, he screws the kids' heads back on and smears blood on them and they're fine again. All is well and they live happily ever after! 2y
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IamIamIam
The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales | Jacob Grimm Wilhelm Grimm
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I've been struggling to focus on anything for the last 2 weeks and I feel miserable starting a thread I can't keep up with. Hoping for a clear head and better response from me for #AGrimmADay. Who thought it would be so difficult to read fairy tales! Enjoy this camelia photo taken at my favorite arboretum several weeks ago. Thanks for sticking around. 💜

Chrissyreadit ❤️ I get it. Hope some Grimm takes the grim away. 😘 2y
IamIamIam @Chrissyreadit Thanks so much, Chrissy!!! 💜💜 2y
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IamIamIam
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#AGrimmADay Day 5: The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids - A goat goes to fetch food and leaves her kids home with a warning about the wolf who will eat them. The wolf tricks the kids, breaks in and eats all the kids but one. The mother and the kid find the wolf asleep in the field, then they cut out the kids and replaced them with stones. He wakes up thirsty & falls down a well and dies. A familiar story I've heard before. 👍

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IamIamIam
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#AGrimmADay Day 4: The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was - A bone headed kid wants to learn to shudder because nothing scares him. His father sends him away after he broke a sexton's leg by pushing him down the stairs as the sexton tried to scare him. He is told to spend the night with men on the gallows. He tries to warm them up instead. He's told to spend 3 nights in a haunted castle and isn't scared by the black cats, ⬇️

IamIamIam The scary skeletons trying to scare him, his dead cousin or the ghost that shows up. The ghost tells him that he's made it through & can take 3 chests of gold. He ends up marrying the princess who has her maid get a bucket of water with fish in it. They dump it on him in the night and voila, he learns how to shudder. Longer than the rest but not terrible. 2y
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IamIamIam
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Day 3 - Our Lady's Child: A poor wood-cutter meets the Blessed Mother in the woods who offers to take his child and raise her in Heaven. The child turns 14 and is given 13 keys. Mary tells her she can use 12 but not the last otherwise it will lead to great unhappiness. She does and it does, lol. She grows up in the woods, unable to speak, until a king finds her and marries her. More below: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #AGrimmADay

IamIamIam She bears 3 children and Mary takes them all, the kingdom thinks she's a man-eater ? and tries to burn her at the stake. Finally, she admits to Mary she opened the door. Our lesson here is, "He who repents his sin and acknowledges it, is forgiven." Mary gives her back her children and her voice. All is well. Everyone forgets they were willing to kill her. ? 2y
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IamIamIam
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Day 2: A cat values the friendship of a trusting mouse so much that they decide to help each other in preparing for winter. They save a pot of fat which the cat decides to sneak off and eat. When winter comes, there's no fat left and as the mouse is realizing it, the cat eats her. A leopard and it's spots, so to speak. #AGrimmADay

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IamIamIam
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Day 1: A princess loses her golden ball & promises a frog that he can be her companion if he retrieves it. She's a brat, of course, and runs away without him. The king is angry that she doesn't keep her word. The frog asks to sleep in her bed and she's mad about it. He says he'll tell the king and she throws him at the wall! That causes him to turn back into a prince and the next day they go to his castle. Iron Henry in the comments: #AGrimmADay

IamIamIam Iron Henry was the prince's bereaved servant who had iron bands around his heart to keep it from bursting. The bands broke as they were returning to the castle. Not sure why the princess gets to drive off into the sunset after being awful to the prince but there are other stories where that didn't pan out. 2y
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IamIamIam
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I've had this one probably since high school & I've read a handful of stories here and there. I think I'd like to do a series of posts about each story rather than review the book after reading the whole thing. #AGrimmADay 🤷‍♀️

mandarchy Commentary by Joseph Campbell! That's a good edition. I love folk tales - when I teach them, I remind students that they are older than the alphabet. Archaeologist are starting to use folklore as evidence in their work and I read recently that Jack and the Bean Stalk is over 10,000 years old! 2y
IamIamIam @mandarchy Wow, that's fascinating!!! Thanks so much for the info!!! 2y
mandarchy @IamIamIam a lot of people mistakenly believe that the Grimms were authors when in fact they were recording oral tradition. 2y
IamIamIam @mandarchy Which makes a lot of sense, of course. The oral tradition goes back so far and I believe that Padraic Colum touched on that in the introduction. People had so few belongings that these stories had a tangible quality to them. 💜 2y
mandarchy @IamIamIam I like the idea of the stories being property. When you think about all the technology that it took to make books available to the average person it makes the stories even more valuable. If you look at the history of literacy you can see many examples of how it carried power and privileges. 2y
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roronoazoro
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I always found the brothers Grimm and their fairy tales fascinating, how can two people be so creative? Many of their fairy tales were modified and told over again pretty much everywhere, many of them are now big Disney movies.
I was always curious to read all their original fairy tales and I‘m glad I did it, it was very worth it.
I found it funny that although many of these are children‘s tales the original versions are so bizarre and macabre.

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Cazxxx
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Can‘t decide which one is my favourite and also where do I put more books 😂

Desha Hahaha I am so in your boat WHERE do I put new books?!!!! Doesn‘t matter....#nevertoomanybooksnotenoughbookshelves 😂📚📚📚 2y
Cazxxx @Desha I‘ll find a space somewhere to make another pile 😂 2y
Desha Of course you will! If we have to make forts out of books we will! 💪👍🏻😂😂 2y
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HeyT
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I'm calling it. I don't often bail but when I do it's a #DoubleSpin chunkster that is very repetitive and hard to slog through. It was nice to see some of the traditional tales mixed in with the more unknown but the way they were organized made it seem repetitive as variations were placed next to each other so it felt like reading the same thing more than once. Out of over 250 tales I got like 50% through and that was a slow hard climb.

HeyT This was my Double Spin for August @TheAromaofBooks 2y
TheAromaofBooks Sometimes it just is toooo much!! Great progress, though!! 2y
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HeyT
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#BookReport
Managed to finish my book spin for the month this week. I enjoyed it but didn't accomplish my other reading goals for the week.

#WeeklyForecast
My goal this week is to work on all my double spin selections. I'm behind so I have a total of three I need to finish before next month. Thankfully I only have one chunkster left.

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HeyT
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Today‘s reading buddy is as annoyed by this heat as I am. Sorry Simon. No windows open with the a/c on 😿
#CatsOfLitsy

RaeLovesToRead Awww Simon is so cute!! 🥰 3y
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HeyT
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#BookReport
I managed to finish book two of the Warchild Mosaic but I'm still waiting for my copy of the third to arrive in the mail so I decided to work on my BookSpin chunksters. I'm about a quarter of the way in both.

#WeeklyForecast
My goal for the week is to get to at least 50% in both chunksters or 75% in just one because I don't see myself finishing either one in just a week.

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HeyT
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#BookReport
Managed to finish two (or three depending how you count them) books this week including the omnibus edition of the Patternmaster series. The standout this week was definitely Warchild though. Everything had uncomfortable things happen but Warchild wasn't as traumatic.

#WeeklyForecast
My goal this week is to finish The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales but it's a chunkster so that may not happen.

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Addison_Reads
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#BookSpin #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

WooHoo! I finally finished it.

Some of these fairy tales were just painful to read, and I'm glad I spread it out over the past few months otherwise I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much.

I enjoyed reading tales I'd never heard of before and also reading tales I loved as a kid that were very different versions of the originals.

TheAromaofBooks A lot of those fairy tales just leave me going ??!!?? 😂 3y
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SusanLee
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Salaga dula, menchika bula, bibidi bobedi boo!
#animals #conflictedworlds @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs 👍🏼📚🤗 3y
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HeyT
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Flipping through my book and found this mess inside. The printing is on top of the stickers and there‘s a weird fold on the spread. I‘ve owned this for so long I don‘t even remember where I got it. I just haven‘t started it until now.

wanderinglynn Weird and super frustrating! 😱🤬 3y
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Addison_Reads
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I'm keeping things a bit open ended again for #BookSpinBingo this month. Maybe I'll finally finish Grimm's. 😀 @TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Yay!!! 3y
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persephone1408
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#curiouscovers
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
Day 17: patterns
I pick my copy of the Brothers Grimm's complete fairy tales. 🖤📚

Eggs Pretty ⚜️🧡⚜️ 3y
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MaJoRomeroDLV
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Amazing book, exactly what I expected from the brothers Grimm.

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hannah-leeloo
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales | The Brothers Grimm
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Would like to show my versions of the Brothers Grimm collection and Hans Christian Anderson collection. Found these in a charity shop for £3 each, was so happy 📚❤️📖

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LadyJade
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#TBRPile Day 3

Posting 1 unread (or book put into hibernation) per day for 31 days. No reason or explanation. Creating a priority TBR.

@StaceyKondla

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Book: Complete Fairy Tales of Brothers Grimm
Author: Charles Dickens
TV Show: The Crown
Singer: Harry Connick Jr
Song: Colors of the Wind (Disney Pocahontas/Judy Kuhn)
@JoScho

JoScho Thanks for playing 💕😊 4y
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diovival
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I found a pretty pastel purple cover on the shelf. Thanks for the #ISpy tag @IamIamIam. I'm inviting @Sace , @Lindy , and @batsy to find a green book.

ju.ca.no What a lovely cover!! 4y
Sace Oooo! Fun! Giveena moment.... 😁 Thanks for the tag! 4y
batsy Thanks for the tag! I'm sure I do :) This cover is so lovely. 4y
Lindy Thanks for the tag. Green cover, coming right up. 4y
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Kieran Bendfeld
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Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales is a mix of a bunch a different stories. most of the stories in the book are in castles, and have the protagonist be in royal decent, like a king, queen, prince, or princess. the antagonist is usually evil, has magical powers, and is jealous of the royalty and tries to kill them. If you like books that tell stories and fairy tales you will like this book.the point of view from the book is third person omniscient.

Kieran Bendfeld the book establishes the points of view when it say he or her the author is telling the stories and it shows multiple points of view from this 4y
MissYaremcio Great review Kieran! I hope you have learned the difference between the Grimm stories and the Disney versions of them - it's a favourite topic of mine to discuss the differences! 4y
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Kieran Bendfeld
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The brother's Grimm is a collaboration of 201 stories. Some stories are about king and queens being tortured or their thorns are tying to be taken away by evil monsters mostly evil witches. Other stories are about evil step mothers that abuse children and in the end they get whats coming to them like Rapunzel. the motifs shown in the book is between good and evil where good people are often shown as beautiful while evil is considered ugly.

Kieran Bendfeld If you like books that tell stories different every chapter and have a creepy stories to it and leave you wanting more try this book Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales. 4y
MissYaremcio I love the Brother's Grimm! It's so cool to see the origins of many Disney stories told in their original forms! 6/6 4y
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biblioatsea
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1.27.20: It‘s been quite some time since I‘ve cracked this one open. Gonna read until I fall asleep, and fairy tales are classic bedtime stories

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TCLinrow
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A pick, purely out of nostalgia. Reading them back again today I had mixed feelings. On the one hand I took a trip down memory lane and had a few laughs to myself, but some of the 'morals' in the story are so skewed it was mind blowing to think that even at the time it was acceptable. Still, some of them are truly classic 🧡

My #LeastRated #TBRChallenge is going well and I'm just about on track to finish by new year 😁

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa
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#ChillingPhotoChallenge

Still picking from books I own!

The 10th: Grim
Status: I have this one in hardcover, it was originally my mom‘s and I scarfed it, putting it onto my shelves years ago.

#Scarathlon
#TeamStoker @TheReadingMermaid

BeansPage 🧟‍♀️ 4y
JazzFeathers 😍 4y
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abbsinwonderland
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales | The Brothers Grimm
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Tamarity
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Inspired...

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biblioatsea
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6.25.19: It‘s been awhile since I‘ve read anything from here, so I‘m going to try and work my way through a few stories while I wait for my next book to arrive at the library☺️

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brilliantglow
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LITTENS! This is so exciting if you love Fairy Loot boxes but couldn't/didn't want to pay $80 for them every month! #fairylootcrate #bookbox

wanderinglynn Thanks for sharing! I‘ve been searching for a new monthly book subscription. I may have to give this one a try. 👍🏻 5y
brilliantglow @wanderinglynn and Fairy Loot has some of the most gorgeous exclusive editions! 5y
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MiqueMarie
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diovival
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Day 14: #heartofgold #marchintothe70s

From Rumpelstiltskin...

"Now get to work! If you don't spin this straw into gold by morning, then you must die."

@Lizpixie @Cinfhen

Cinfhen Clever choice (edited) 5y
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Malliig
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The book was fun but kind of hard to read. Some of the words were outdated. The stories were nice to read before going to sleep. Overall the book was nice and a fun little read.

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monalyisha
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I haven‘t added the final touches yet (ribbon, box) but I‘ve gotta say: I‘m pretty proud of my #HappilyEverAfterSwap wrapping job. 💁‍♀️

I‘ll be visiting the post office on my lunch-break today! 🖤🥀

BookKenz 😍😍 Beautiful wrapping! 5y
Cinfhen Love the paper🌸🌹🌸🌹🌸🌹 5y
hermyknee That looks gorgeous! 5y
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PagesByTheWater Amazing wrapping job! Definitely need to step up my swap game 5y
BookishTrish Wow! 5y
Smarkies Absolutely gorgeous wrapping! 5y
julesG Just wow! 5y
Craftylikefox It looks so gorgeous 😍 I love the wrapping 5y
dgingo Gorgeous! What paper did you use for the quotes? 5y
Carolyn11215 That wrapping is incredible!! Would be almost sad to open packages!! 5y
monalyisha Thanks @dgingo! It‘s just some sandy-colored cardstock that I ripped (I used it for my brother & sister-in-law‘s vows when I officiated their beach wedding). 😊 5y
Chrissyreadit That‘s beautiful! 5y
Books88 Gorgeous 😍😍😍 5y
diovival This is lovely! I would swoon. 5y
dgingo @monalyisha Perfect! These are so lovely! 5y
monalyisha @Chrissyreadit It‘s en route & should arrive on Friday! 5y
LeahBergen Wow! So pretty! 5y
Chrissyreadit ❣️👏🙌😘❣️ 5y
greenhairdontcare Woah these look amazing! 5y
DivineDiana You should be! Gorgeous! 5y
Jess Wow! This is beautiful. 5y
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MiqueMarie
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SageLaruta
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A stunning copy of the Grimm fairy tales that I found in BJ's wholesale of all places!

What is your favorite fairy tale?

I think I will always be partial to Rumpelstiltskin 👸

Endowarrior21 I now have to look at my BJs 5y
PagesByTheWater That‘s a wonderful cover! 😍 5y
JazzFeathers Wow! What a fantastic edition! 5y
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Biverson12
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Not quite like the Disney movies 😉... What is your favorite original Grimm‘s fairy tale?

StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego Hope you are enjoying Litsy so far 📖💙 5y
TheSpineView Welcome to Litsy! 5y
Biverson12 Thank you! Really enjoying Litsy so far! @StillLookingForCarmenSanDiego and @TheSpineView 5y
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ReadingsByTheC
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Got in under the wire for this cool swap hosted by @Chrissyreadit ! Can't wait to start shopping, so fun! #happilyeverafterswap

Chrissyreadit Awesome! 5y
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Blueberry
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Happy birthday Jakob Grimm, who with his brother, Wilhelm, wrote Grimm's Fairy Tales from where we got all of these iconic tales:
-Snow White
-Cinderella
-Hansel and Gretel
-Rapunzel
-Little Red Riding Hood
-Rumpelstiltskin
-Sleeping Beauty

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