Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Fairy Tales and Children's Stories

 
Fairy Tales and Folklore

                                                     Founding Fathers and Collectors of Fairytales  

Charles Perrault (1628 –1703)
All of the following books have all or nearly all of the 11 tales that CP wrote and collected.

The Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1696
THE FAIRY TALES OF CHARLES PERRAULT (1922 edition)
The Complete Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (1993 Edition) including

Donkey Skin                                                                    Ludicrous Wishes  or the Foolish Wishes
Sleeping Beauty in the Wood                                     Little Red Riding Hood
Bluebeard                                                                       Puss in Boots
The Fairies                                                                      Cinderella
Ricky of the Tuft or Tufty Ricky                                   Little Tom Thumb  or Hop o’ My Thumb
Patient  Griselda

The Brothers Grimm  
Jakob Grimm (January 4, 1785 – September 20, 1863)
Wilhelm Grimm (February 24, 1786 – December 16, 1859

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
Josef Scharl (Illustrator), Margaret Hunt (Translator), James Stern (Editor), Padraic Colum (Contributor), Joseph Campbell (Contributor)  June 8th 2011 by Pantheon (first published 1812)
Includes
Bearskin                                               The Brave Little Tailor                        The Bremen Town  Musicians
Brother and Sister                              Diamonds and Toads                          The Elves and the Shoemaker
Fisherman and His Wife                    The Frog King, or Iron Henry              The Girl Without Hands
Godfather Death                                  Golden Goose                                       The Goose Girl
Hansel and Gretel                                 King Thrushbeard                                 Maid Maleen
Rapunzel                                                 Rumpelstiltskin                                      Six Swans
Snow White and Rose Red                  Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs           
The Twelve Dancing Princesses          & many more

IN FILM
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) directed by Henry Levin and George Pal
The Brothers Grimm (2005)  directed by Terry Gilliam

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen  (1812-1885)   Jørgen Moe  (1813-1882)
Popular Tales From the Norse  translated by George Webbe Dasent  Third Edition, 1888
Including 
The Three Billy Goats Gruff    and   East of the Sun and West of the Moon

 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock 1826-1887
The Fairy Book  (1863) includes Tom Thumb
The Little Lame Prince and the Adventures of a Brownie   (1928)
Includes: The Little Lame Prince, The Adventures of a Brownie,
The Invisible Prince, Prince Cherry, and The Prince with the Nose

 Alexander Afanasyev (11 July 1826 – 23 October 1871)
Russian Fairy Tales Norbert Guterman (Translator) 1863 Includes  
The Fire Bird
Baba Yaga

Grandfather's Mitten 1870
The Fool and the Fish: A Tale from Russia  1990
Myths and Legends of Russia 2009
Vasilisa the Beautiful and Baba Yaga  2011
Words Of Wisdom: Russian Folk Tales From Alexander Afanasiev's Collection  1987
Maria Morevna and Koschei the Wizard 2012

Pavol Dobšinský ( 1828- 1885) 
Slovak Tales for Young and Old: 
Ivan Reguli (Editor), Martin Benka (Illustrator) 2002 by Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

Hans Christian Anderson (1805 –1875)
The Complete Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales
 Lily Owens (Editor & Introduction), Various (Translator and Illustrator)
1996 by Gramercy Books (first published 1884)

Includes
The Emperor's New Clothes            Little Match Girl                           Little Mermaid
The Nightingale                                Princess and the Pea                      Red Shoes 
Snow Queen                                      The Steadfast Tin Soldier              Thumbelina
The Tinderbox                                   The Ugly Duckling

 In Film
Hans Christian Andersen (1952) starring Danny Kaye
Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairytale ( 2001

Hans Christian Andersen Award: prize awarded by the International Board on Books for Young People

 Andrew Lang (1844 –1912)
1 Blue Fairy Book (1889) including Beauty and the Beast
2 Red Fairy Book (1890)
3 Green Fairy Book (1892)
4 Yellow Fairy Book (1894)  including The Glass Mountain and The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
5 Pink Fairy Book (1897)
6 Grey Fairy Book (1900)
7 Violet Fairy Book (1901)
8 Crimson Fairy Book (1903)
9 Brown Fairy Book (1904)
10 Orange Fairy Book (1906)
11 Olive Fairy Book (1907)
12 Lilac Fairy Book (1910)

Joseph Jacobs (29 August 1854 - 30 January 1916)
Earliest English Version of the Fables of Bidpai (1888)
Celtic Fairy Tales (1892 anthology)
Fables of Aesop (1889)

English Fairy Tales (1890)  Including
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack the Giant Killer
The Three Little Pigs

More English Fairy Tales (1894)
Celtic Fairy Tales (1892)
More Celtic Fairy Tales (1894)
Indian Fairy Tales (1912)
European Folk and Fairy Tales (1916) including  Swan Maiden

Yei Theodora Ozaki

 Japanese Fairy Tales (1903) including Momotarō
Hamilton Wright Mabie
(Editor Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know )
Published August 18th 2008 by BiblioLife (first published 1905)

Clifton Johnson
The Oak-Tree Fairy Book (1905)
The Elm-Tree Fairy Book (1909)
The Fir-Tree Fairy Book (1912)

Florence White Williams
 The Little Red Hen and Other Stories  1914

Blanche Fisher Wright
The Real Mother Goose 1994 by Scholastic Inc. (first published 1916)

Polish Folk and Fairy Tales
J. Glinski

Polish Fairy Tales (1920)
W. S. Kuniczak and Pat Bargielsk
The Glass Mountain: Twenty-Eight Ancient Polish Folktales and Fables (Sep 1997)

Richard Monte and Paul Hess
The Dragon of Krakow and Other Polish Stories (Folktales from Around the World) (Sep 1, 2008)
The Mermaid of Warsaw: And Other Tales from Poland by Richard Monte and Paul Hess(Oct 25, 2011)

American Tall Tales

Adrien Stoutenberg
American Tall Tales  (1976)

Mary Pope Osborne
American Tall Tales [1991]

Paul Robert Walker /James Bernardin (Illustrator)
Big Men, Big Country: A Collection of American Tall Tales  (1993)

Michael Patrick Hearn edited and with an introduction by
The Victorian fairy tale book. 1988

Mary Hoffman
The Macmillan Treasury of Nursery Stories (2000) including The Gingerbread Man
First published St. Nicholas Magazine 1875 

Chinese Folk Tales

Yin-Lien C. Chin
Chinese Folk Tales: An Anthology (1989)

Patrick Yee, Shelley Fu, Yee
Treasury of Chinese Folk Tales: Beloved Myths and Legends from the Middle Kingdom (2008)

Tales of Otogizoshi
Osamu Dazai, Ralph F. McCarthy, Joel Cohn
Otogizoshi: The Fairy Tale Book of Dazai Osamu (2011)

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