Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Norway (Adaptation)
Illustrator:
Leonard Weisgard
Virginia Haviland
Publication:
1961 by Little, Brown, and Company
Genre:
Fairy Tales, Fiction, Folk Tales, World Cultures
Series:
Virginia Haviland's Favorite Fairy Tales 
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Favorite Fairy Tales told in simple, faithful versions by VIRGINIA HAVILAND, Readers Advisor for Children, Boston Public Library. These books bring the great old tales within the reach of all children, whether they read or listen. Each book provides a fascinating and valuable introduction to the folklore of the people to whom the stories belong.
"The Princess on the Glass Hill," "Why the Sea is Salt," "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," "Taper Tom," "Why the Bear is Stumpy-tailed," "The Lad and the North Wind," and "Boots and the Troll," illustrated in green and red and blue by Leonard Weisgard.
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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
Leonard Weisgard
1916 - 2000American
Leonard Weisgard, winner of the Caldecott Medal for The Little Island, was born in New Haven, Connecticut. The author and illustrator of numerous bo... See more
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Podcast
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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