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Read for #ChildrensClassicRead2025
I enjoyed the artwork in this version of the classic fairy tale. I went back & read the Grimm‘s version online to see the gentling down in the modern versions (like princes being banished rather than beheaded for not discovering the mystery). A quick & nostalgic read. 💛

I've been cat-sitting for my son while he and his partner were visiting friends, and taking advantage of being in the city, I'm having breakfast at Gran T's in Ancoats.
I'm enjoying Gossip from the Forest, with its blend of nature writing & the author's riffs on fairy stories.
It's a two-bookmark-book: the red for the page I'm on, the black for the notes, in, If I do say so myself, an excellent example of #BookmarkMatching 🔖🔖😁
#BooksAndCoffee

Finished this one today. It was ok and I didn‘t DNF. But, yeah.

Another small cute book I have chosen for a bit of diversion.

#Naturalitsy #HyggeHourReadathon

Spending my #HyggeHour reading the tagged book for #ChildrensclassicRead2025 & since that won‘t take long, I‘m going to read The Answer Is No from @JacqMac ‘s #AuldLangSpine list on my Kindle. Noshing on dried cinnamon Fuji apples & drinking apple chai tea.

I‘m so not ready for another crazy work week & the general crazy that will happen starting Monday. 😵‍💫

Started this on audiobook last month, then realized I was missing out on illustrations and artwork. I put the hard copy on hold at my library not knowing it was the second, expanded edition. It features the inclusion of an all new extra section entitled: Yokai Gallery, with even more artwork!

Either edition is awesome, and Foster‘s determination to shine a scholarly light on a subject that could be written off as pop culture is admirable.

This was my favorite fairy tale as a kid because of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre. I watched her production of The Twelve Dancing Princesses countless times. I was so excited to find it on youtube:

https://youtu.be/rFSiAoYmhAg?si=l8v8kM7QEBTOwxYp

I included a couple retellings in my photo. I'm reading Salt and Sorrows as a companion read. Kingfisher was from a few years ago.

#childrensclassicread2025
@TheBookHippie

The last #12DaysofChristmas post. Thank you for hosting @Andrew65

Fiction
The tagged was a highlight of my year. I will eagerly read anything by Yangsze Choo

Non-fiction
Square Hauntings by Francesca Wade examines the lives of 5 extraordinary literary women in London between the wars.

#Midwintersolace #Litsolace

Welcome to #FridayNightshare 'tis Friday, I checked this time. 😅

Week 5 theme is a favourite fiction book about animals. Let's get those tbr stacks growing with our recommendations.

Mine is a book (tagged) I read last month and was blown away with the storytelling, plot, characters, and the foxes. It was an outstanding read of the year. 🦊

@Chrissyreadit @TheBookHippie

I‘m planning to go to the library to find the Grimm‘s Brothers version, but here are three versions I‘m reading of our #ChildrensClassicRead2025 book for January