“For scholars, students, and general readers, Tatar’s book is a balanced, sensitive, and informative guide to the content and context of Grimms’ fairy tales. From its inception, it has openly endorsed a productive discipline that condemns idleness and disobedience along with most forms of social resistance. “A clear, imaginative and fascinating illumination of the stories we thought we knew.”- Los Angeles Times Book Review Children's literature, Maria Tatar maintains, has always been more intent on producing docile minds than playful bodies. Their Grimm’s Fairy Tales was influential because of its popularity and because it formed the basis for the scholarly study of folklore. In the early 19th century the Grimm brothers of Germany traveled around the countryside collecting stories. What results is at once intelligently eclectic and refreshingly commonsensical, a thoughtful ramble through the dark childhood woods that haunt our adult dreams.”-Carl Maves, San Francisco Chronicle The fairy tales came to have a major influence on children’s literature as their popularity spread. “Tatar takes detours into literary history here and into comparative anthropology there. Off With Their Heads Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood, published in 1993 The Annotated African American Folktales The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales. “ The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales-related in language that is sharp, lively, and free of jargon-is delightful evidence that Grimm scholarship can give pleasure to the general reader.”-Janet Adam Smith, New York Review of Books
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