Favorite Fairy Tales Told in France (Adaptation)
Illustrator:
Roger Duvoisin 
Complete Authored Works
Virginia Haviland
Original author:
Charles Perrault
Translator:
Virginia Haviland
Publication:
1959 by Little, Brown, and Company
Genre:
Anthology, Fairy Tales, Fiction, Folk Tales, World Cultures
Series:
Virginia Haviland's Favorite Fairy Tales 
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Pages:
91
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Now boys and girls of the ages to enjoy fairy tales most can read these wonderful stories for themselves. And they can know them in faithful versions that they will always be proud to own. Told in France has "The Twelve Dancing Princesses." in Miss Haviland's own translation from the French of Charles Deuli; and "Puss in Boots," "Beauty and the Beast," "The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood," "Drakestail," from Charles Perrault and other French storytellers. Roger Duvoisin has illustrated these stories in both color and black and white.
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Virginia Haviland
1911 - 1988American
Readers' Advisor for Children, Boston Public Library, Associate Editor of the HORN BOOK MAGAZINE, lecturer in children's literature at Simmons ... See more
Roger Duvoisin
(Pronounced Dyoo-vwah-zahn)1900 - 1980
Swiss American
Born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1904, Roger Duvoisin’s early childhood was filled with artistic influences from his father, an architect, and oth... See more
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Episode 70: Why Read Fairy Tales?
Released in 2020 by The Literary Life
Available formats: Streaming Audio
Length: 1 hr. 29 min.
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"Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins tackle the topic of fairy stories, discussing the what, why and how of reading them. Angelina shares the distinctive characteristics of fairy stories in contrast to other types of stories, such as myths. They deal with the question of whether fairy tales are 'escapist', the influence of the Grimm brothers scholarly work on interpreting fairy stories, and allowing the story to unveil its deeper truths without forcing meaning onto it.
Angelina gives an illustration of how to see the gospel messages in fairy tales by talking us through the story of Sleeping Beauty. She refutes the ideas that fairy tales are about human romance or are misogynistic. She also highlights some of the Enlightenment and Puritan responses to fairy tales that still linger with us today. Cindy and Angelina also discuss some common concerns such as the magical, weird, or scary aspects of fairy tales. Angelina also makes a distinction between folk tales, literary fairy tales, and cautionary tales."
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