When you love Philip Pullman and fairy tales! Couldn't leave this haha
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Fairy Tales From The Brothers Grimm: A New English Version | 
When you love Philip Pullman and fairy tales! Couldn't leave this haha
pickThis is a lovely collection of curated, well-written stories. I read these out loud with my ten year old, and we both had a grand time with them.
pickStylish, enjoyable retelling of grimm‘s stories for modern readers. I admire Pullman a lot for not trying to do ‘his take‘ on the stories or really update them at all, just retell them as fairy tales, I also admire that he included the weirder, more depressing and less easy to love stories. They just felt like classic fairy tales told very well which is everything he was going for I think!
The Brothers Grimm definitely have some #grim and spooky tales.
#chillingphotochallenge #scarathlon @Clwojick
Day 5 #7covers7days
@Emhill Would you like to join in #CoverCrush ? Post a favorite cover every day for one week, no explanation needed and tag new Litten each day.
pickI really enjoyed reading this. I even read some aloud to my son and I hate reading aloud 😁
#riotgrams Day 3 - fairy tales! This new translation/retelling of the Brothers‘ Grimm by Phillip Pullman has been on my TBR for a while. Maybe I should get to that. 😉 @bookriot
The Brothers Grimm fairytales still go on today in different versions and re-tellings. Best I could think of for this prompt 😬 #rocketbrothers #septemberdanes
My friend wanted to order a book (a soccer book of some kind) from Book Depository and I thought shipping halfway across the world is a serious journey and I ought to order some too to make the trip worthwhile. I ended up ordered 3 while my friend got only 1. 🤣
And I‘d like to give credits to Book Depository, as this is the first time I use their service. They took care of the packages really well!
In Rapunzel, after a man steals a from a witches garden to help his ill wife, he #promises her their first child in return for her allowing this. This book is so great - it‘s a selection of Philip Pullman‘s favourite Grimm fairytales and a brief explanation of each of their origins and meaning. I love all fairytales and the Grimm ones are so dark and fantastic! 💗💜💙
#HeartsAndHardcovers
pickPhilip Pullman is better known for His Dark Materials, but I enjoyed this version of the Grimms‘ fairytales. He provides notes on each of the fifty selections at the end of the stories, which were interesting peaks behind the curtain of storytelling and folktales.
Looking forward to reading this book of fairy tale retellings! #fablesandfolklore #uncannyoctober
Wait, what?!
A mouse, a bird and a sausage decided to set up home together. For a long time they carried on happily, living within their means and even managing to save a little. The bird's job was to go into the forest every day and bring back wood for the fire, the mouse had to get water from the well, make the fire and lay the table, and the sausage did the cooking.
😂
This is a very creative interpretation of "three things."
From "The boy who left home to find out about the shivers"
Forgot just how dark and graphic some of these can actually be. Won't be showing them to my children just yet.
Can't wait to read these fairytales. What are some of your favourites? I loved the original Little Mermaid when I was 6 (daggers and all...🗡).
pickPhilip Pullman notes in the introduction that the Grimm fairy tales, along with The Arabian Nights, "are the most important & influential collections of folk tales ever published." An economy of information contributes to the swiftness of these tales. Anthropomorphic creatures, elaborate punishments & occasionally shocking violence, seemingly impossible quests & riddles. Praised by Harold Bloom on the back, Pullman's versions are eloquent tales.
One of my favorite aspects of this book are the elaborate & strange punishments as shown above.
I'm falling in love with these swift, violent, frequently surreal tales.
Still unread ... but this is a book with my #favoritecover
#riotgrams
I started pickeling my own onions recently and that are so good! I wanted to take a picture in day light but I'm never home when it's light out (poor me) So here it is anyway. This on a thick slice of bread with some good soft cheese is just the thing I crave when reading Philip Pullman's amazing retellings of the Grimm brothers' fairy tales. 😀
Yesterday I was #dreamingofacolderclimate and today I am reading while on my train to work and everything is dusted by snow ❄😀 Not yet the full blown winter I am hoping for but Mother nature must have read my post yesterday 😉I even went outside last night to walk in the fresh snow.
Just got out of work and it's fairly cold today but I'm always #dreamingofacolderclimate as I hate heat. But for now I enjoy the cold weather with some apple pie and a Chao Latte. Accompanied by the lovely fairy tale book I got for christmas. Waiting for your train to arrive doesn't have to be bad 😉
#januaryreads @RealLifeReading
My partner reads me bedtime stories & told me I should keep track of the books we read in my journal #journaling #journaling #reading
My #readingresolution is reading whatever I love! I have wasted too much time ploughing through the so called classics and other books that everyone 'should' read and I didn't enjoy. Reading is a fun activity and I should enjoy it. So from now on, I only read what I like. And not what people tell me I should like 😊
@RealLifeReading #readjanuary
I love fairytale retellings. I especially enjoyed Cinder and the rest of the Lunar Chronicles this year. Philip Pullman's Grimm Tales I've yet to read. Hopefully soon #photoadaynov16
Day 15 of #photoadaynov16 : #booknerdproblems so many books, so little time. And this is only a fraction of the books I wanna read. How does anyone keep up with new novels??!
'We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts. We need books, time and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten but once upon a time lasts forever.'
Philip Pullman
Night-night, book buddies...shhhhh...
#bookmark #booktober #bookmarks #oldtypewriterkeys
'Swiftness is a great virtue in the fairy tale. All we need is the word "Once..." and we're off'
#philippullman #fairytales #grimmtales
These are all the #whitespines I could find on my first bookcase. A few are still on the #tbr pile though. #augustofpages #bookphotochallenge
I didn't read it yet, but is Philip Pullman!
#minimalisticcovers #day6 #augustphotochallenge #augustofpages
pickI grew up loving these tales, and was pleased to discover a few new ones (new to me, anyway) in this collection. Pullman cleans up some of the archaic language from the originals and provides a short bit of commentary and historical context for each tale.
A must-read for fairy tale fans.
You would think one collection would be enough. But this is Philip Pullman!
The Brothers Grimm by candle light. Who needs power on a Saturday night?
