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In a fairy tale, if you want to marry a princess, you’ve got a lot of work ahead of you. You will be asked to demonstrate great strength, wisdom, and the ability to get along with others. Also, patience, long-suffering, and above all else, courage. This week, we read two stories where the hero is […]

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Some interesting stories this week: 113: The Two Kings’ Children 114: The Cunning Little Tailor or The Story of a Clever Tailor 115: The Bright Sun Brings it to Light 116: The Blue Light

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A common fairy tale trope is for a king to give away his daughter in marriage to a man who can perform some extraordinary feat: kill the dragon terrorizing the land (The Two Brothers), find some impossibly lost object (The Queen Bee) or, as a reward for kindness. (Bearskin, though not a princess; but still, […]

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These are the stories we’re reading this week: 109: The Shroud 110: The Jew Among Thorns 111: The Skillful Huntsman 112: The Flail from Heaven

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Let’s talk enchanted castles this week. In our read-through of Grimm’s Fairy tales, we’ve come across several enchanted castles already. Previously, I’d only thought about Sleeping Beauty (suspended animation) and Beauty and the Beast (animated furniture in the Disney version, and things just happen in the original.) But in the first half of Grimms’ tales, […]

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Hope everyone is having a fun summer. We’ve got some interesting reading this week: 105: Tales of the Paddock 106: The Poor Miller’s Boy and the Cat 107: The Two Travelers 108: Hans My Hedgehog I had trouble linking my blog image last week. If you have problems this week, try refreshing your browser or using a different browser. […]

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As I work my way through Grimm, I’m also keeping a Pinterest board divided by fairy tale. Some fairy tale boards are easy to fill with illustrations. Others, not so much. There are several tales with empty boards….or boards that only contain pins from the #GRIMMread2019 challenge. (*Note to self…go back and pin all the […]

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Hard to believe we’ve already broken into the 100s. Almost half-way there. 101: Bearskin 102: The Willow Wren and the Bear 103: Sweet Porridge 104: Wise Folks

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Dwarfs are interesting fairy tale characters. In Snow White, they are presented as human dwarfs, living in a cottage in the woods and working in mining of gold and minerals. But in other stories, they are presented more as magical creatures. For instance, in one of this week’s tales, The Water of Life, each of […]

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Look! We’re all the way up to the first 100 stories in Grimm. We’re almost halfway through the challenge. 97: The Water of Life 98: Doctor Know-all 99: The Spirit in the Bottle 100: The Devil’s Sooty Brother

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