"The Little Mermaid" is my all time favorite ..and the only reason is.... its abt underwater world which is my favorite place in the world ! =]
When i was a chiLd i buiLt a wall of hatred arOund me. When i was aSked, "From what did u buiLd this wall?", i repLied... "From the stOnes of insuLts!"
The Three Little Pigs and if only The Lion King counted as a fairytale. As for me, though, it does.
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I liked reading most of the Grimm fairytales--they were fascinating and scary at the same time. I remember one where a woman's betrothed to a man, whom she later discovers is a cannibal...she watches as he chops up another bride of his and her finger goes flying into the first girl's lap...that stuck with me for a while. o.0
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'Snow White and Rose Red', 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Puss in Boots' were always my favorites as a kid, but recently I discovered the huge anthology of Brothers Grimm stories my library had and I was hooked.
I didn't really grow up to fairy tales, and never had much of interest in reading any. The ones I did, I didn't like much- damsels in distress, always saved by the prince, some cheesy moral-of-the-story worked in there, never elaborating more than 'happily ever after'. YUCK.
Some that made it close, for me, were Peter Pan (IT COUNTS, shut up), and, uh... uh... okay, one sec, getting the fairy tale book my grandmother got me... ah, here we are:
Peter Pan The Constant Tin Soldier (almost makes me cry, that one) Princess and the Pea
But, there are some renditions of fairy tales I'm very, very fond of: Once Upon A Mattress, and Into the Woods, specifically.
So there you have it- I don't actually like fairy tales all that much.
hey, Jude, don't make it bad take a sad song and make it better remember to let it into your heart then you can start to make it better.
I mean, for some reason, I've never really liked the three little pigs. But then again, my mom didn't really tell us those stories. She liked giving us these epic fairy tale books several hundred pages thick and giving us the bloodiest, most twisted tales to read. It was awesome.
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
PETER PAN. (And shush, it is a fairy-tale. Sort of.)
I read the book a few years back (was only acquainted with film versions before) and it was even better than any Disney rendition of it. The bizarre thing is, it was heartbreakingly sad while still being wondrously joyful.
Heehee, I guess Peter Pan and Alice sort of count.
Snoink- I loved the Goose Girl as well, Shannon Hale wrote a wonderful version of it that I've read so many times I basically know it off by heart. Thanks for the last one, I had never read it before! The only Norweigan story I know is East of the Sun, West of the Moon, but it's definitely one of my favourites. I used to have a book of "Princess Stories" that it was in, along with some others. There was a great one called Silver-Tree and Gold-Tree. Actually, that's the first time I've ever found a different version of it. In my version, Gold-Tree had a daughter called Copper-Tree and she was the one who did everything the second wife here does. Guess they didn't approve of bigamy? lol, that's interesting. Still, have to say, upon reading this version, I like the fact that his second wife isn't evil and is just normal and smart and nice. I like characters like that in fairytales.
"Stella. You were in my dream the other night. And everyone called you Princess." -Lauren2010
