Illustrated Grimm's Fairy Tales (Usborne Illustrated Story Collections)

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What makes Hockney’s visual interpretation especially enchanting is that while traditional fairy tale images tend to rely on beauty and color to create magic and contrast the beautiful and the ugly to distinguish between good and evil, even the princesses in his black-and-white illustrations are unassuming, ugly even; where ornate, detailed imagery would ordinarily fill the traditional visual vignette, Hockney’s ample use of negative space invites the imagination to roam freely. com affiliate programs, designed to provide a means for sites to earn commissions by linking to books. Is a much needed book in this age of chaos when children rule over parents and women over their husbands. The Illustrated Fairytales of the Brothers Grimm is a tome to complement any bookshelf or bedtime routine. These tales could be seen as moral lessons because they reward honesty, beauty, kindness and industry, and punish greed, laziness and dishonesty and so on.

If you haven't been brought up in happy bubble unicorn land, and NEVER even at the ripe old age of 44 had ever read a fairy-tale.

Zwerger brings her singular vision to eleven of the Grimm stories in the absolutely gorgeous volume Tales from the Brothers Grimm: Selected and Illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger ( public library), published in 2012 and translated by Anthea Bell. The following year, she set out to translate and illustrate Tales from Grimm ( public library) — a remarkable fusion of Gág’s own peasant heritage and her masterful skills as a fine artist. The two beloved Grimm tales, along with the Cornish folk classic Jack the Giant-Killer, charmingly retold by James Donnelly and illustrated by Gorey, were eventually collected by Pomegranate in the 2010 gem Three Classic Children’s Stories ( public library). Registered office address: Unit 34 Vulcan House Business Centre, Vulcan Road, Leicester, Leicestershire, LE5 3EF. If they are willing to dig a bit, they'll find out he's essentially a line illustrator, a pen and ink artist who added color (and in many cases very complex layers of colors of different transparencies) only when he was completely satisfied with lines.

Zippes brings that seminal first edition to life in The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm: The Complete First Edition ( public library), featuring breathtaking illustrations by Romanian-born artist Andrea Dezsö. It is curious to think that we owe so many of our best-loved fairy tales – from ‘The Frog Prince’ to ‘Rapunzel’ – to the scholarship of two German brothers in the 19th century. Age 7+ An illustrated collection of fifteen tales from the brothers Grimm, retold for younger readers. All of the stories promote a good wholesome moral compass - keep your promises, be kind to others, don't be greedy, make witches wear red-hot iron shoes and dance until they die screaming as entertainment at your wedding, that kind of thing.These being the "Original" non-wishy-washy-luvvy-wuvvy versions of fairytales they tend to be gritter, with often creepier elements and some brutality (for example, one of the evil stepsisters in Cinderalla slices off her own toes so the glass slipper fits her - crafty!

If you want your children to be stronger adults, or if you are an adult who wants some perspective, I highly recommend this book. In this day of children all being "chosen" for a team and not having the experience of not making the team, of there being no scores kept making the games noncompetitive, of not being taught how to lose gracious and how to win graciously, these "fairy tales" can make the difference between a child who grows into an adult ready to face the world or an adult who is afraid of their shadow and has to "retire" from the work force because they did not learn how to "work and play well" with others. I have no staff, no interns, not even an assistant — a thoroughly one-woman labor of love that is also my life and my livelihood. Die Aufmachung an sich ist auch sehr schön, gebunden mit hübschen Illustrationen, absolut sein Geld wert. But it was Gág’s retelling of that proto-feminist folktale, which she had learned from her Austro-Hungarian grandmother, that first sparked her interest in translating and reimagining folktales for children.See more, including Gaiman in conversation with Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly on what makes fairy tales endure, here. To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the tales in 1973, exactly a decade after Where the Wild Things Are transformed Maurice Sendak from an insecure young artist into a household name, FSG invited the 45-year-old artist to illustrate a translation of the Grimm classics by novelist Lore Segal. Gathered here — after similar collections of the world’s most beautiful illustrations for Alice in Wonderland and The Hobbit — are the finest and most culturally notable such Grimm reimaginings of which I’m aware.