I have read Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales: Cinderella, The Nail, The Rose, The Girl Without Hands
Title: The Nail
Author: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Publisher: Kind-badly & Winkler publishing house; Patmos publishing house
Copyright Date: 1999
Number of Pages: 1
Age Level: Grade 5-12
Genre: Traditional Fairy Tale
Summary: It all began with a merchant that was on his way home on his horse. At noon he stopped in a town and a servant brought him his horse and told him that a nail was missing on his left hind hoof. The merchant answered, "Let it be, the show will certainly stay on for the six hours that I still have to ride. I am in a hurry". In the afternoon he stopped once again and was told by another servant the same thing. Again the merchant answered, "Let it be, I'm in a hurry". Soon enough, the horse begins to limp, then stumble, then completely fall and break it's leg. The merchant then thinks that it was all bad luck because of a cursed nail. The moral is haste makes waste.
Reaction: I actually really enjoyed this fairy tale. It is short and easy to read, which is a plus. You can learn a lot from this tale especially that you should make time for necessary things or in the end everything will just fall apart and you will be agitated.
Recommendation: I would recommend that older grades read this tale when studying fairy tales. There are many great themes and morals in the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales and they can teach great things if you are willing to learn.
Potential Problems/Conflicts: It might be harder to teach the moral of not wasting your time to elementary aged children because there is much detail, so I would stick with older students.
Title: The Nail
Author: Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Publisher: Kind-badly & Winkler publishing house; Patmos publishing house
Copyright Date: 1999
Number of Pages: 1
Age Level: Grade 5-12
Genre: Traditional Fairy Tale
Summary: It all began with a merchant that was on his way home on his horse. At noon he stopped in a town and a servant brought him his horse and told him that a nail was missing on his left hind hoof. The merchant answered, "Let it be, the show will certainly stay on for the six hours that I still have to ride. I am in a hurry". In the afternoon he stopped once again and was told by another servant the same thing. Again the merchant answered, "Let it be, I'm in a hurry". Soon enough, the horse begins to limp, then stumble, then completely fall and break it's leg. The merchant then thinks that it was all bad luck because of a cursed nail. The moral is haste makes waste.
Reaction: I actually really enjoyed this fairy tale. It is short and easy to read, which is a plus. You can learn a lot from this tale especially that you should make time for necessary things or in the end everything will just fall apart and you will be agitated.
Recommendation: I would recommend that older grades read this tale when studying fairy tales. There are many great themes and morals in the Grimm Brothers' fairy tales and they can teach great things if you are willing to learn.
Potential Problems/Conflicts: It might be harder to teach the moral of not wasting your time to elementary aged children because there is much detail, so I would stick with older students.
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I have read these Jacob's Fairy Tales: Jack and the Beanstalk, Teeny-Tiny, The Cat and the Mouse, The Rose Tree.
Title: Teeny- Tiny
Author: Joseph Jacobs
Publisher: E-book of English Fairy Tales by Philipp Lenssen
Copyright Date: 1890
Number of Pages: 2
Age Level: Grade 2- 12
Genre: Traditional Fairy Tale
Summary: This fairy tale starts as once upon a time; it is about a teeny-tiny woman who lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village. Everything she owns or does is teeny-tiny. She decides to go for a teeny-tiny walk and ends up at the churchyard and stopped at a grave and took a teeny-tiny bone she saw. She decided she would use the bone to make some delicious soup, so off she went back home. She put the teeny-tiny bone into a teeny-tiny cupboard that night as she went to bed. She had been asleep when she heard a teeny-tiny voice coming from the teeny-tiny cupboard; the voice said "Give me my bone!" This frightened the teeny-tiny woman and so she put her head under some clothes and tried to go to sleep again. She was awakened by a even louder voice, "Give me my bone!” The teeny-tiny woman was much more frightened so she put her head under a lot of clothes and went back to bed, again the voice was heard and she used her loudest teeny-tiny voice and said, "TAKE IT!”
Reaction: This was a really cute story since it used "teeny-tiny" to describe all objects and details. The story was short and to the point, but the only thing I had a problem with was trying to figure out what type of moral or theme goes along with this.
Recommendation: I feel that any grade level teacher can read this story if they wish, although I would probably only begin with second grade as it may not make sense to earlier ages. During the study of fairy tales this can be an example of a English fairy tale.
Potential Problems/Conflicts: There is no known moral that is shared at the end like most fairy tales. With this fairy tale I suppose you can take it to whatever level you wish and come up with your own application. It is hard to make sense of, since there is no real point.
Title: Teeny- Tiny
Author: Joseph Jacobs
Publisher: E-book of English Fairy Tales by Philipp Lenssen
Copyright Date: 1890
Number of Pages: 2
Age Level: Grade 2- 12
Genre: Traditional Fairy Tale
Summary: This fairy tale starts as once upon a time; it is about a teeny-tiny woman who lived in a teeny-tiny house in a teeny-tiny village. Everything she owns or does is teeny-tiny. She decides to go for a teeny-tiny walk and ends up at the churchyard and stopped at a grave and took a teeny-tiny bone she saw. She decided she would use the bone to make some delicious soup, so off she went back home. She put the teeny-tiny bone into a teeny-tiny cupboard that night as she went to bed. She had been asleep when she heard a teeny-tiny voice coming from the teeny-tiny cupboard; the voice said "Give me my bone!" This frightened the teeny-tiny woman and so she put her head under some clothes and tried to go to sleep again. She was awakened by a even louder voice, "Give me my bone!” The teeny-tiny woman was much more frightened so she put her head under a lot of clothes and went back to bed, again the voice was heard and she used her loudest teeny-tiny voice and said, "TAKE IT!”
Reaction: This was a really cute story since it used "teeny-tiny" to describe all objects and details. The story was short and to the point, but the only thing I had a problem with was trying to figure out what type of moral or theme goes along with this.
Recommendation: I feel that any grade level teacher can read this story if they wish, although I would probably only begin with second grade as it may not make sense to earlier ages. During the study of fairy tales this can be an example of a English fairy tale.
Potential Problems/Conflicts: There is no known moral that is shared at the end like most fairy tales. With this fairy tale I suppose you can take it to whatever level you wish and come up with your own application. It is hard to make sense of, since there is no real point.
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I have read these Perrault Fairy Tales: The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Blue Beard, The Fairies, Little Thumb.
Title: The Fairies
Author: Charles Perrault
Publisher:New York : Dover
Copyright Date: 1969
Age Level: Grades 3-12
Genre: Traditional Fairy Tale
Summary: There once was a mother and her two daughters. The elder daughter was mistaken for her mother in looks, they were beautiful. The younger girl was like her father and was gentle and sweet and was just as beautiful as her mother and sister. The mother favoured the eldest daughter since she resembled her so closely, and disliked the youngest one. She would make the youngest daughter eat all her meals in the kitchen and work from morning till night. She would also have to go twice a day and draw water from a spring that was a half mile away.
Title: The Fairies
Author: Charles Perrault
Publisher:
Copyright Date: 1969
Age Level: Grades 3-12
Genre: Traditional Fairy Tale
Summary: There once was a mother and her two daughters. The elder daughter was mistaken for her mother in looks, they were beautiful. The younger girl was like her father and was gentle and sweet and was just as beautiful as her mother and sister. The mother favoured the eldest daughter since she resembled her so closely, and disliked the youngest one. She would make the youngest daughter eat all her meals in the kitchen and work from morning till night. She would also have to go twice a day and draw water from a spring that was a half mile away.
One day the young girl went to the spring and an old woman came up and begged for a drink. The young girl, being kind, drew her water from the cleanest part of the spring. The old woman was actually a fairy and granted a gift unto the young girl because she was so kind. The gift was that every time she spoke flowers and diamonds would fall from her mouth. The young girl soon went home and was speaking to her mother when diamonds and flowers fell from her mouth. The mother cried and couldn’t believe what was happening and was so excited that she sent the eldest daughter to the spring as well. The ill-mannered girl sulkily went to the spring and when she was there the same fairy appeared as a princess and asked for a drink. The elder daughter was rude and she was cursed so that every time she spoke snakes and toads would drop out of her mouth. Soon she went home.
The mother blamed the youngest girl for her older daughter’s gift. Being punished, the young daughter ran away into the woods. The king’s son soon saw her and asked why she was alone and crying. She explained everything and soon the king’s son fell in love with her and married her. As for the older sister, she was so sassy that her mother drove her out of the house and she went to the corner of the woods and died.
Reaction: I really enjoyed this tale, because I have never heard anything like it. I feel that you can learn many morals out of this. Two morals that I found that fit along with it are that diamonds and money can work wonders in some ways, but its gentle words that are worth the most. Some think that they don’t need to be kind, but if you are kind you may be brought goodness when you don’t think you will.
Recommendation: I would recommend this tale to little girls. They can be taught that it’s not good to be sassy and rude, that it’s kindness that the world needs. Young boys may be interested as they speak about snakes and toads in the story.
Potential Problems/ Conflicts: The attitude of the mother and eldest sister may be offensive to some and some children may even try to act that way.
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Title: Thumbikin
Author: Peter Christen Asbjornsen & Jorgen Moe
Publisher: Dover
Copyright: 1970
Age Level: Grades 3-12
Genre: Traditional Fairy Tale
Summary: Once a woman had one son that was no taller than your thumb, so he was called Thumbikin. When Thumbikin became old enough, he went on a journey with his mother to find himself a wife, preferably a big Princess. But once they were on their way, Thmbikin was lost and gone, his mother cried and cried because he was lost and she would never find him again. Really Thumbikin had hidden himself in the horse’s mane and promised his mother he would not do it again, but soon he was lost. Thumbikin hid in the horse’s ear and nose, and his mother could not find him anywhere. Once she did find him, she put him into a bag so he would not hide himself again. They finally arrived to the palace and the Princess loved him so soon a wedding was too come. When they sat down at the wedding-feast, Thumbikin sat at the table by the Princess’s side; but he could not reach the table, so the Princess had to help him get a bite to eat. Soon a great bowl of porridge arrived, and he received help by the Princess again. He sat down by the melting butter as he tried to get a great spoonful of porridge to dip into the butter; the Princess was reaching to help him and tipped him over. He drowned in the melted butter.
Reaction: I really enjoyed the beginning of the story because I could visualize a small man, sort of like a Tinkerbell sized person. The moral of obedience was reflected, but I really did not like the ending, it was sad that the story ended with his death.
Recommendation: I would only recommend that this fairy tale be read at home by parents if they want to read it to their child. I would not require this to be read in a classroom setting.
Potential Problems/ Conflicts: I feel that since it has a sad ending, some parent’s may not approve this story for their children to read.
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I have read these Andersen Fairy Tales: Leaping Match, Real Princess, The Red Shoes, The Princess and the Pea.
Title: The Princess and the Pea
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Copyright Date: 1835
Age Level: Ages 9-12
Genre: Traditional Fairy Tale
Summary: Once there was a prince that really wanted to marry a princess, but she had to be a real princess. He traveled all over but he couldn’t find one at all. There were plenty of princesses, but it was difficult telling whether or not they were real ones or not. He became sad and went home. One night there was a terrible storm and a knock at the city gate. The old king went and opened it and there stood a princess, she was drenched from the rain and said that she was a real princess. The old queen had to test that, so she took all the bedding of the bedstead and laid a pea on the bottom and put twenty mattresses on top of the pea and then twenty eider-down beds on top of the mattresses. The princess slept on that bed the whole night and in the morning exclaimed that she had slept badly that she just knew she slept on something hard and she had bruises all over her body. They knew she was the real princess because she had actually felt the pea. No one but a real princess could be that sensitive. The prince and princess soon became married and the pea was put into a museum where all could see. That is a true story.
Reaction: I really liked this version of the Princess and the Pea. Everything was happily ever after. Sometimes we need to test others too see how great they really are. There are lots of fake people in the world, and this just shows that in some way we can find true loves or just true friends.
Recommendation: I would recommend that students in grades 4-12 read this for an English course, or just while studying about traditional fairy tales. Young girls I’m sure would enjoy this the most since it has to do with princesses.
Potential Problems/ Conflicts: The details of her body being black and blue may frighten very young children, but overall this story has a great moral.
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