Download or read book The Singing Springing Lark First Edition written by Wilhelm Grimm and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I shall eat anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark!" Rather than a rose and a beast, the Brothers Grimm version of the Beauty and the Beast fairytale begins with a request for a singing, springing lark and a prince cursed as a lion. The youngest daughter keeps her father's promise and returns to the lion's castle, where her adventure is only just beginning. For soon, with the assistance of the Sun, the Moon, and the Four Winds, she is forced to search for her lost love and save him from the grasp of an enchanted princess. Alongside another variant, From the Summer and Winter Garden, also from the first edition of the Brothers Grimm's Children and Household Tales, the original version of The Singing, Springing Lark is brought to life for an English readership in this new translation. [Folklore Type: ATU-425C (Beauty and the Beast)]
Download or read book The Singing Springing Lark First Edition written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-24 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I shall eat anyone who tries to steal my singing, springing lark!” Rather than a rose and a beast, the Brothers Grimm version of the Beauty and the Beast fairytale begins with a request for a singing, springing lark and a prince cursed as a lion. The youngest daughter keeps her father’s promise and returns to the lion’s castle, where her adventure is only just beginning. For soon, with the assistance of the Sun, the Moon, and the Four Winds, she is forced to search for her lost love and save him from the grasp of an enchanted princess. Alongside another variant, From the Summer and Winter Garden, also from the first edition of the Brothers Grimm’s Children's and Household Tales, the original version of The Singing, Springing Lark is brought to life for an English readership in this new translation. [Folklore Type: ATU-425C (Beauty and the Beast)]
Download or read book Aschenputtel the Little Ash Girl First Edition written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Go to the little tree on your mother’s grave. Shake it and wish for beautiful clothes, but come back before midnight.” In the Brothers Grimm’s version of a persecuted heroine’s struggle to escape the hardships she experiences following her widowed father’s marriage to a cruel woman with two beautiful but mean daughters, there are impossible tasks and helpful birds, a new name and an ash-dress, a Prince and three balls, a wish-tree and dresses of silver and gold. Can Aschenputtel find happiness and a future full of promise, or will her family succeed in keeping her as their cinder maid? In one book, experience new translations of the first and seventh versions of Aschenputtel (Cinderella) alongside Allerleirauh (All Kinds of Fur), a close variant from the ‘Cinderella Cycle’ of fairytales. Also included is another ATU-510 type fairytale, The True Bride, taken from the final edition of the Brothers Grimm’s Children's and Household Tales. [Folklore Type: ATU-510: Cinderella and Catskin – A + B (Persecuted Heroine + Unnatural Love)]
Download or read book Snow White First Edition written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2014-10-04 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who in this land is fairest of all?” Undoubtedly the most famous of the Brothers Grimm fairytales, Snow White is the story of a girl—as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as ebony—who is the victim of her mother, the jealous Queen, but with the help of seven dwarfs she just might be able to live happily ever after... In these new translations, the original and final versions of Snow White—from the first and seventh editions of the Brothers Grimm’s Children's and Household Tales—are brought to life for an English readership to enjoy one after the other, complete with black and white illustrations by Franz Jüttner. [Folklore Type: ATU-709 (Snow White)]
Download or read book Hansel and Gretel First Edition written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-06 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nibble, nibble, little louse! Who is nibbling at my house?” Translated from the first edition, experience the tale of Hansel and Gretel in its original form, as brother and sister are abandoned in a great forest by their parents, only to discover that someone far more sinister than wild animals awaits them… The final version of this classic fairytale—from the seventh and ultimate edition of the Brothers Grimm’s Children's and Household Tales—is also included. With these latest English translations, the original and final versions can be read back-to-back, showcasing the ever-evolving nature of fairytales. [Folklore Type: ATU-327A (The Children with the Witch) + ATU-1121: The Ogre’s Wife Burned in Her Own Oven]
Download or read book Sinderela The Little Cinder Girl written by Matthew Wood and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One slipper will fall from your foot, and the Prince will come after you and find it.” Scorned by her two elder sisters, Sinderela is forced to hide in the coal-hole so no one can see her. After she overhears her sisters talking about a Prince, Sinderela finds help in the guise of an old beggar woman who shows her a secret door, inside which are the means to transform her into a lady so grand no one would recognise her. When one of Sinderela’s golden slippers falls from her foot, her life is changed forever, but her elder sister is determined to make sure Sinderela never gets her happy-ever-after with her Prince. A Cinderella tale with a twist, this Welsh-Romani fairytale was one of many collected by the esteemed linguist John Sampson from the dramatic storyteller, Matthew Wood. Look no further than this English edition to discover more about the fate of Sinderela and her family, as well as that of a Welsh-Romani Cinder Lad in Goggle-Eyes. [Folklore Type: ATU-510 (Cinderella and Catskin) and ATU-707 (The Bird of Truth)]
Download or read book Snow White and Rose Red written by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2020-11-05 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dwarf glared at the girls with his red fiery eyes and shouted, “What are you standing there for? Can you not come over here and help me?” As different as winter and summer, Snow White and Rose Red are as devoted to each other as sisters can be. One night, an unexpected visitor knocks at the door of their cottage, where they live cosily with their mother, and a half-frozen large black bear asks for a warm place to rest. Initially afraid of him, the girls soon befriend him and he becomes their playfellow throughout the winter nights. When spring arrives, the bear heads off into the forest to guard his treasures from wicked dwarfs, who live underground and emerge from their caves when the earth has thawed and who have one ambition in mind—to steal. A short while after the bear’s departure, the girls encounter a dwarf in distress and stop to help him, but there is more to him than meets the eye… Alongside this tale by the Brothers Grimm is The Ungrateful Dwarf, the 1818 folktale by Karoline Stahl, upon which Wilhelm Grimm drew inspiration for Snow White and Rose Red. Both tales are presented in this book, newly translated into English. [Folklore Type: ATU-426 (The Two Girls, the Bear, and the Dwarf)]
Download or read book Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm written by Walter Traill Dennison and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The King’s daughter, the Princess Gemdelovely must be given to the Stoorworm.” Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm relates the tale of a Kingdom besieged by a gigantic sea-serpent and the battle between Assipattle, a most unlikely hero, and the Stoorworm, as Assipattle seeks to save Gemdelovely, the daughter of the King. This edition is the original Orkney tale as recorded by Walter Traill Dennison. It also includes up-to-date language notes by Rachel Louise Lawrence. [Folklore Type: ATU-300 (The Dragon Slayer)]
Download or read book Tom Tit Tot Sequel written by Anna Walter Thomas and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2014-10-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If you have not guessed my name by month’s end, then you shall be mine!” In this classic English folktale, our heroine eats too many pies - which leads to her marrying a king who only wants her for her skills as a spinster - which leads to her making a deal with a diminutive, magical creature in order to save her life! Can she guess the name of her helper in time? Or will he succeed in claiming her as his own? The sequel, ‘The Gipsy Woman’, is set a year later and finds the queen once more charged with the task of spinning five skeins, daily, for a month. Help arrives in the form of a gipsy woman but can she be trusted? This book contains two versions of the each tale: one in modern day English, and the other, as told originally, in the dialect of East Anglia. [Folklore Type: ATU-500 (The Name of the Helper)]
Download or read book Cendrillon and the Glass Slipper Illustrated written by Charles Perrault and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her godmother, who was a Fairy, said, “You would like to go to the ball, is that not so?” When her father remarries, his daughter is mistreated and labelled a Cinder-maid by her two new stepsisters. However, when the King’s son announces a ball, Cendrillon finds her life forever changed by the appearance of her Fairy Godmother, who just might be able to make all her dreams come true... Enjoy this new translation of the most famous and beloved version of the Cinderella fairytale in all its original glory with silhouette illustrations by Arthur Rackham. [Folklore Type: ATU-510A (Persecuted Heroine)]
Download or read book Talia The Sleeping Beauty written by Charles Perrault and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Princess Talia shall pierce her hand with a spindle and die of the wound.” Drawing on the versions by Perrault and Basile, this new retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty fairytale tells the story of Talia, a Princess, who is cursed by a slighted Fairy to die of a wound from a spindle. However, her destiny is re-imagined by another Fairy to sleep until awoken by the son of a King, who will have to deal with an enchanted wood and an ogre before he can live in peace with Talia, and their two children, Sun and Moon... In addition, this book contains English translations of the original tales by Perrault and Basile, ‘The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood’ and ‘Sun, Moon and Talia.’ [Folklore Type: ATU-410 (The Sleeping Beauty)]
Download or read book Zezolla The Cat Cinderella written by Giambattista Basile and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2014-09-18 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within four days, the date-tree had grown as tall as a woman, and out of it came a Fairy, who said to Zezolla, “What do you wish for?” Before Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, Basile penned the first modern literary version of the Cinderella fairytale. It is the story of Zezolla, the daughter of an Italian Prince, who is betrayed by her governess and forced to live the life of a servant—that is until the King announces a feast. With assistance from a date-tree given to her by the Fairies of Sardinia, Zezolla is able to attend the feast and her life is forever changed. In addition, this book contains The She-Bear—a close variant of The Cat Cinderella, also from Giambattista Basile’s The Pentamerone—for an English readership to enjoy. [Folklore Type: ATU-510: Cinderella and Catskin – A + B (Persecuted Heroine + Unnatural Love)]
Download or read book East of the Sun and West of the Moon written by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A great White Bear waits outside. He has faithfully promised to make us all rich if he can but have our youngest daughter.” Often called the Scandanavian 'Beauty and the Beast', 'East of the Sun and West of the Moon' tells of the journey of the daughter as she leaves everything she has ever known to accompany the White Bear to his mountain castle, then to the homes of the Four Winds as she searches for the bear and seeks to rescue him from the clutches of a troll Princess, who resides in a castle that lies east of the sun and west of the moon ... [Folklore Type: ATU-425A (Search for the Lost Husband)]
Download or read book Fair Brown and Trembling written by Jeremiah Curtin and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I will give you a finer dress than either of your sisters has ever seen.” More beautiful than her two elder sisters, Trembling is not allowed to go out of the house for fear that she might marry before them. Even after the Prince of Omanya falls in love with the eldest, she fears their wrath if she should attend church. However, with the magical assistance of an unassuming henwife, Trembling is able to wear such finery and arrive in such style that not even her sisters recognise her. As word of the mysterious beautiful lady spreads throughout the world, princes and great men come to see her and gain her hand. When one suitor gains the means to identify her by way of a lost shoe, the search is on, but who will succeed in discovering her true identity and what will it mean for Trembling and her sisters? More than a Cinderella story, this Irish fairytale continues beyond the shoe test, beyond the wedding vows. To discover whether Trembling prevails against all that lies in store for her, look no further than this latest adaption. [Folklore Type: ATU-510A (The Persecuted Heroine)]
Download or read book Aslauga s Knight written by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Her name was Hildegardis, and she was acknowledged far and wide as the fairest of maidens.” Froda, a brave and generous Danish knight, reads the century old legend of Queen Aslauga and his life is forever changed. On his journey to a tournament, where the prize is the hand of the beautiful Lady Hildegardis, he encounters the quiet but courageous German knight, Edwald. Both driven by honour and love, the strength of their friendship is tested through the tournament and the subsequent abduction of Hildegardis. Ghosts and witches, magic and combat, abound in this tale of love and friendship.
Download or read book The Little Mermaid written by Hans Christian Andersen and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2019-07-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “More and more, she came to love humans; more and more, she wished she could rise up among them.” The youngest daughter of the Sea King cannot wait to be old enough to go to the surface and see the world of humans. Her first visit there changes her life forever when she saves a prince from drowning, and comes to love him above all others. For the chance to win his love and gain an immortal soul, the little sea princess is willing to risk everything… First published in 1837, Hans Christian Andersen’s haunting tale of love is brought to an English readership in this illustrated and unabridged edition, which has been translated directly from the original Danish into English and includes illustrations by Ivan Bilibin.
Download or read book Nutcracker and Mouse King written by E. T. A. Hoffmann and published by Blackdown Publications. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic tale begins on Christmas Eve, when young Marie Stahlbaum and her siblings open their Christmas presents. One toy, a Nutcracker who looks like a soldier, soon become Marie’s favourite gift. That night, the Nutcracker comes to life and battles the evil Mouse King. Once Marie discovers how the Nutcracker came to be cursed, she has many decisions to make. Will she help the Nutcracker defeat the Mouse King? Will she help break his curse? And will she return to the magical kingdom, populated by dolls, to be with her beloved Nutcracker? In this unabridged edition, E. T. A. Hoffmann’s timeless fantasy leaps from the page as the author originally intended. Discover his rich and enchanting world in this new English translation.
