{"id":16811,"date":"2015-11-03T09:04:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T15:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=16811"},"modified":"2015-11-03T09:04:18","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T15:04:18","slug":"the-brothers-grimm-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2015\/20151103-16811.htm","title":{"rendered":"The Brothers Grimm: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have long loved fairy tales as I knew them – generally from popular saccharine representations in children’s picture books and (of course) Disney movies. Later on, I came to love young adult fairy tale novelizations such as those by Jessica Day George and Robin McKinley. But, apart from my childhood reading and re-reading of Anderson’s Fairy Tales<\/em>, I haven’t read many original fairy tales.<\/p>\n

Since I am<\/em> familiar with Hans Christian Anderson’s original tales, I’ve selected a less familiar collection of originals for this month’s Reading to Know Book Club<\/a> – Grimms’ Fairy Tales<\/a> (link to Wikipedia). <\/p>\n

Grimms’ Fairy Tales<\/em> include 200 separate tales – familiar tales such as Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Little Red Riding Hood, but also much less familiar ones. Since the volumes are rather large, I don’t expect that many of us will read them in their entirety (I\u2019m going to try but to give myself plenty of grace if I don\u2019t end up doing so!). So this challenge will be to read one or more of the Grimm brothers’ original fairy tales and to write about them so we all can learn a bit more about the tales behind the children’s storybook versions. <\/p>\n

As I mentioned on my nightstand post, I’m planning on reading:<\/p>\n