Hmm well for someone who recommended Harry Potter if he is racist he obviously missed the point of the message that Harry treats Goblins as equals and Dobby as a friend.
Though his earlier post did say about tackling racist issues, as i recall - to try to be fair. He might just have had a serious bad brain moment in naming his baddies… and be feeling bad right now about that sort of bladoosh:smack:
I try not to be prejudiced against anyone even if they do vanity publishing. getting a publisher is a hellish business…
Sarah
I was thinking of these very tomes.
I have certainly got the Rose fairy tale book by Andrew Lang; he also wrote up folk tales from France and rewrites of the Iliad and Odyssey.
my researches uncover in order of publication:
Red, green, yellow, pink [is my rose perhaps a reprint of this?] grey, violet, crimson, brown, orange, olive and Lilac.
Also ‘Old Friends amongst the fairies; Puss in Boots and other tales’ and a load of other stories of his own and retellings of old tales. Wiki him; there’s a plethora of books to make any bibliophile drool.
There are fan fiction fairy tale retellings and also, i think, in the realms of Disney stories.
You might also like Farmer Giles of Ham by Tolkein; a slim volume but full of the traditon of good storytelling with a dragon in it and a cowardly dog and a shrewd hero. I suspect if you got to fairy stories via Disney you won’t necessarily like the Grimm brother retellings - grim is right - nor some of the original Charles Perrault versions. Lang is definitely Victorianly sanitised as I recall and a good story teller into the bargain; I mostly devoured his various retellings of the tales of Greece and Rome before i discovered that myth, legend and fairy tale had some very blurry boundaries and that the Daone Sidhe became fairies over time…
You might also like the excellently drawn graphic novels of Wendy and Richard Pini, the Elfquest stories.
Both the old versions of fairy tales and the newer retellings can be enjoyable. Personally, I’m very fond of the anthologies edited by Terri Windling and Ellen Datlow, although they are not the only retellings that I read. Robin McKinley has put out an anthology of retold fairy tales, too.
My favorite fairy tale is “Kate Crackernuts” – it’s an honest-to-goodness classic fairytale, but it seems like it could have been written today to appeal to modern sensibilities: the older, plainer step-sister sets off to save her pretty step-sister who’s been cursed, uses her wits to do so, and rescues the prince in the bargain.
Nthing the love for the Andrew Lang colored fairy books. The gorgeous pen-and-ink illustrations are an added bonus.
SarahJean writes:
> I have certainly got the Rose fairy tale book by Andrew Lang; he also wrote up
> folk tales from France and rewrites of the Iliad and Odyssey.
> my researches uncover in order of publication:
> Red, green, yellow, pink [is my rose perhaps a reprint of this?] grey, violet,
> crimson, brown, orange, olive and Lilac.
Blue Fairy Book (1889)
Red Fairy Book (1890)
Green Fairy Book (1892)
Yellow Fairy Book (1894)
Pink Fairy Book (1897)
Grey Fairy Book (1900)
Violet Fairy Book (1901)
Crimson Fairy Book (1903)
Brown Fairy Book (1904)
Orange Fairy Book (1906)
Olive Fairy Book (1907)
Lilac Fairy Book (1910)
dragongirl are you still looking for this after 9 years? The links are dead in this thread.