“The wheel does not break, ‘Tis the band round by heart That, to lessen its ache, When I grieved for your sake, I bound round my heart.”
The Complete Fairy Tales | 
“The wheel does not break, ‘Tis the band round by heart That, to lessen its ache, When I grieved for your sake, I bound round my heart.”
After reading a tale like Cinderella or Hansel and Gretel, students will create their fairy tale with a moral or lesson. They can invent characters, magical creatures, and a setting.
pickThis book brings to life a collection of classic stories filled with magic, adventure, and lessons about good and evil. Including favorites like Cinderella, Snow White, and Hansel and Gretel.
pickReading my creepy kids the creepy classics— Eliot was really into the pigeons in Cinderella 👀🐦
Day 30 of #scarathlondailyprompts is potion. I borrowed Grimm‘s Fairy Tales from the library several years ago out of curiosity of the original stories so many times retold. I was struck by how incredibly short they all were, often just two pages. People have made lots of money fleshing them out. #TeamSlaughter #scarathlon
pick1. Because I enjoy reading. I love to be able to travel to different worlds with words... A good book is always a good thing
2. My parents. They are also great readers and encourage me to read since I was little.
3. After work, when I travel and when I go to a coffee shop to read. In general when I have the time 😁
#littenswanttoknow
Day 6- #AGrimmADay : Faithful John - a weird one... a king has a faithful servant & on his deathbed tells him to keep a portrait of a princess locked up when his son becomes king. The new king demands to see the locked room and finds the princess of the Golden Dwelling. He immediately falls in love but will die if he tries to find her. He persists and snatches her. John heard ravens talking about what happens when they land and get off the boat ⬇️
I've been struggling to focus on anything for the last 2 weeks and I feel miserable starting a thread I can't keep up with. Hoping for a clear head and better response from me for #AGrimmADay. Who thought it would be so difficult to read fairy tales! Enjoy this camelia photo taken at my favorite arboretum several weeks ago. Thanks for sticking around. 💜
#AGrimmADay Day 5: The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids - A goat goes to fetch food and leaves her kids home with a warning about the wolf who will eat them. The wolf tricks the kids, breaks in and eats all the kids but one. The mother and the kid find the wolf asleep in the field, then they cut out the kids and replaced them with stones. He wakes up thirsty & falls down a well and dies. A familiar story I've heard before. 👍
#AGrimmADay Day 4: The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was - A bone headed kid wants to learn to shudder because nothing scares him. His father sends him away after he broke a sexton's leg by pushing him down the stairs as the sexton tried to scare him. He is told to spend the night with men on the gallows. He tries to warm them up instead. He's told to spend 3 nights in a haunted castle and isn't scared by the black cats, ⬇️
Day 3 - Our Lady's Child: A poor wood-cutter meets the Blessed Mother in the woods who offers to take his child and raise her in Heaven. The child turns 14 and is given 13 keys. Mary tells her she can use 12 but not the last otherwise it will lead to great unhappiness. She does and it does, lol. She grows up in the woods, unable to speak, until a king finds her and marries her. More below: ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #AGrimmADay
Day 2: A cat values the friendship of a trusting mouse so much that they decide to help each other in preparing for winter. They save a pot of fat which the cat decides to sneak off and eat. When winter comes, there's no fat left and as the mouse is realizing it, the cat eats her. A leopard and it's spots, so to speak. #AGrimmADay
Day 1: A princess loses her golden ball & promises a frog that he can be her companion if he retrieves it. She's a brat, of course, and runs away without him. The king is angry that she doesn't keep her word. The frog asks to sleep in her bed and she's mad about it. He says he'll tell the king and she throws him at the wall! That causes him to turn back into a prince and the next day they go to his castle. Iron Henry in the comments: #AGrimmADay
I've had this one probably since high school & I've read a handful of stories here and there. I think I'd like to do a series of posts about each story rather than review the book after reading the whole thing. #AGrimmADay 🤷♀️
pickI always found the brothers Grimm and their fairy tales fascinating, how can two people be so creative? Many of their fairy tales were modified and told over again pretty much everywhere, many of them are now big Disney movies.
I was always curious to read all their original fairy tales and I‘m glad I did it, it was very worth it.
I found it funny that although many of these are children‘s tales the original versions are so bizarre and macabre.
Can‘t decide which one is my favourite and also where do I put more books 😂
bailedI'm calling it. I don't often bail but when I do it's a #DoubleSpin chunkster that is very repetitive and hard to slog through. It was nice to see some of the traditional tales mixed in with the more unknown but the way they were organized made it seem repetitive as variations were placed next to each other so it felt like reading the same thing more than once. Out of over 250 tales I got like 50% through and that was a slow hard climb.
#BookReport
Managed to finish my book spin for the month this week. I enjoyed it but didn't accomplish my other reading goals for the week.
#WeeklyForecast
My goal this week is to work on all my double spin selections. I'm behind so I have a total of three I need to finish before next month. Thankfully I only have one chunkster left.
Today‘s reading buddy is as annoyed by this heat as I am. Sorry Simon. No windows open with the a/c on 😿
#CatsOfLitsy
#BookReport
I managed to finish book two of the Warchild Mosaic but I'm still waiting for my copy of the third to arrive in the mail so I decided to work on my BookSpin chunksters. I'm about a quarter of the way in both.
#WeeklyForecast
My goal for the week is to get to at least 50% in both chunksters or 75% in just one because I don't see myself finishing either one in just a week.
#BookReport
Managed to finish two (or three depending how you count them) books this week including the omnibus edition of the Patternmaster series. The standout this week was definitely Warchild though. Everything had uncomfortable things happen but Warchild wasn't as traumatic.
#WeeklyForecast
My goal this week is to finish The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales but it's a chunkster so that may not happen.
pick#BookSpin #BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
WooHoo! I finally finished it.
Some of these fairy tales were just painful to read, and I'm glad I spread it out over the past few months otherwise I don't think I would have enjoyed it as much.
I enjoyed reading tales I'd never heard of before and also reading tales I loved as a kid that were very different versions of the originals.
Salaga dula, menchika bula, bibidi bobedi boo!
#animals #conflictedworlds @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Flipping through my book and found this mess inside. The printing is on top of the stickers and there‘s a weird fold on the spread. I‘ve owned this for so long I don‘t even remember where I got it. I just haven‘t started it until now.
I'm keeping things a bit open ended again for #BookSpinBingo this month. Maybe I'll finally finish Grimm's. 😀 @TheAromaofBooks
#curiouscovers
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@Eggs
Day 17: patterns
I pick my copy of the Brothers Grimm's complete fairy tales. 🖤📚
Amazing book, exactly what I expected from the brothers Grimm.
Would like to show my versions of the Brothers Grimm collection and Hans Christian Anderson collection. Found these in a charity shop for £3 each, was so happy 📚❤️📖
#TBRPile Day 3
Posting 1 unread (or book put into hibernation) per day for 31 days. No reason or explanation. Creating a priority TBR.
@StaceyKondla
I found a pretty pastel purple cover on the shelf. Thanks for the #ISpy tag @IamIamIam. I'm inviting @Sace , @Lindy , and @batsy to find a green book.
pickGrimm's Complete Fairy Tales is a mix of a bunch a different stories. most of the stories in the book are in castles, and have the protagonist be in royal decent, like a king, queen, prince, or princess. the antagonist is usually evil, has magical powers, and is jealous of the royalty and tries to kill them. If you like books that tell stories and fairy tales you will like this book.the point of view from the book is third person omniscient.
The brother's Grimm is a collaboration of 201 stories. Some stories are about king and queens being tortured or their thorns are tying to be taken away by evil monsters mostly evil witches. Other stories are about evil step mothers that abuse children and in the end they get whats coming to them like Rapunzel. the motifs shown in the book is between good and evil where good people are often shown as beautiful while evil is considered ugly.
1.27.20: It‘s been quite some time since I‘ve cracked this one open. Gonna read until I fall asleep, and fairy tales are classic bedtime stories
pickA pick, purely out of nostalgia. Reading them back again today I had mixed feelings. On the one hand I took a trip down memory lane and had a few laughs to myself, but some of the 'morals' in the story are so skewed it was mind blowing to think that even at the time it was acceptable. Still, some of them are truly classic 🧡
My #LeastRated #TBRChallenge is going well and I'm just about on track to finish by new year 😁
#ChillingPhotoChallenge
Still picking from books I own!
The 10th: Grim
Status: I have this one in hardcover, it was originally my mom‘s and I scarfed it, putting it onto my shelves years ago.
#Scarathlon
#TeamStoker @TheReadingMermaid
6.25.19: It‘s been awhile since I‘ve read anything from here, so I‘m going to try and work my way through a few stories while I wait for my next book to arrive at the library☺️
LITTENS! This is so exciting if you love Fairy Loot boxes but couldn't/didn't want to pay $80 for them every month! #fairylootcrate #bookbox
Day 14: #heartofgold #marchintothe70s
From Rumpelstiltskin...
"Now get to work! If you don't spin this straw into gold by morning, then you must die."
@Lizpixie @Cinfhen
