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Original Title:	The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
ISBN:	0393051633 (ISBN13: 9780393051636)
Edition Language:	English

The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales

Maria Tatar

Hardcover | Pages: 445 pages

Rating: 4.4 | 1471 Users | 72 Reviews

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Title	:	The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
Author	:	Maria Tatar
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 445 pages
Published	:	October 17th 2002 by W. W. Norton Company
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fairy Tales. Classics. Fiction. Short Stories. Folklore

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I usually love the Norton Annotated books, but this one was a disappointment. The first let-down was that Tatar also annotated The Annotated Brothers Grimm and The Annotated Hans Christian Andersen, and many of the same fairy tales -- with the same or nearly the same annotations -- are included here. Only about 1/3 of the book is not available elsewhere, mostly Charles Perrault fairy tales. In addition, usually the art reproductions in these books are excellent, but in this case many of them were so small that it was impossible to see any detail (basically, they were thumbnail size), and the reproduction was very dark. Frequently the annotations would mention details in the illustrations that were difficult or downright impossible to see!

This is a fairly good collection if you haven't already read the Grimm and Andersen books, but otherwise it's definitely not one I would recommend purchasing. I really wish Tatar had just done an "Annotated Charles Perrault" or "Annotated French Fairy Tales" instead of this somewhat lazy and slapdash volume.

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I absolutely loved this book. This book was so cool because it had a bunch of different illustrations and I really liked the different annotated notes from Tatar. Sadly, we breezed through this book (she'd assign 6 fairy tales at a time) so I don't think I could've enjoyed the book quite as much as I would've liked, but otherwise, I absolutely adored the book and all it contained.

A good gift book, and with its greater variety I think overall more appealing than Tatar's Annotated Brothers Grimm, with which it is somewhat redundant -- though like that one, it's meant to appeal to a broader audience. Scholars should instead consider her academic texts, like the Norton Critical Edition of the Classic Fairy Tales. I do love her approach on fairy tales, a cross between anthropological and literary, not too caught up by the limitations of either.

Love the annotations.

Though the title says "... classic fairy tales", this book is not really for children. In fact it is for those (say, adults) who love the classic fairy tales and want to learn about the history of those fairy tales.Very surprising and eye-opening to read the facts and reasons behind why some of those stories were made/told. Some even so dark and gory that I agree with the editor that such stories were not really for children:)

As repositories of a collective cultural consciousness and unconscious, fairy tales have attracted the attention of psychologists, more notably the renowned child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim. In his landmark study, The Use of Enchantment, Bettelheim argued that fairy tales have a powerful therapeutic value, teaching children that "a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoiable." (introduction, xiii)Over the past decades child psychologists have mobilized fairy tales as powerful



I really enjoyed reading this annotated edition of some of the classic fairy tales. I liked how their were different versions of many of the stories, with bits and pieces being changed. I also liked the many illustrations by various people, which was nice to have alongside the stories.