This book is a great way for your children to learn about different cultures in our world and to respect the people who have them. Adventure Travel also teaches several different languages. Geography is also included. This book is educational but your child will be having so much fun that they won't even realize they are learning. A great buy with hours of fun.

This is a wonderful book for kids to learn about different areas of the world. My kids really liked learning and coloring the great pictures. I found the activities were very educational for them and that it was a good way to keep them very busy when ourselves were traveling.

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Fans of artistic photo books for kids will find this an intriguing contemporary treatment of the Red Riding Hood classic. Here a little country girl faces urban and rural threats on her way to grandmother's house, only to find her grandmother has been replaced by an evil wolf. The sad ending for Riding Hood is dramatic and revealing, providing a realistic twist on the fairy tale.

I enjoyed the story as Perrault wrote it, not as yet another alternate version with yet another happy ending. Red Riding Hood, also available in French as Le Petit Rouge, contains marvelous photos by Sarah Moon which lend an eerie, appropriately menacing mood to an already dark tale. It should be said, however, that this book is unsettling and is undoubtedly not one to share with your child as a bedtime story.

I just ordered a number of the Andrew Lang books from Amazon. The Blue Fairy Book arrived yesterday, and I could not have been more disappointed. It came in a very plain blue hardback. I opened it up, and NOWHERE inside is Andrew Lang mentioned, nowhere are any of the illustrations, from either of the two other versions I know. The production quality -- the paper, the binding -- is poor, and the "author" is listed throughout as "Anonymous." The publisher of this book is IndyPublish.com. I don't know the deal, or how they get listed under Andrew Lang, but I recommend that if you want a real Andrew Lang book, don't buy one of the IndyPublish books.

Andrew Lang's series of fairy-tale books are some of the fundamental children's reading of the twentieth and late nineteenth century. The stories are not "original": there's no such thing when they were almost without exception passed down orally; but they are in old, not very modernized tellings.

Many readers who have only seen or read modern, Disney-fied versions of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty or Snow-White will not recognize some of the darker twists in these tales. For example, in Sleeping Beauty, when the Prince wakes the Princess and marries her, the story is by no means over. The Prince's mother is an Ogress, whom his father married for her wealth, and it's suspected that she likes to eat little children; that "whenever she saw little children passing by, she had all the difficulty in the world to avoid falling upon them". The happy couple have two children, named Day and Morning, and the Ogress decides to dine on them one day when the Prince is away. Yes, it still has a happy ending, but Disney it isn't.

The illustrations--8 full page, plus 130 smaller ones--are all from the original 1891 edition. They're black and white woodcuts; very atmospheric, and I think most children will like them.

The only thing that might have to be explained to a child is the occasional use of vocabulary that is no longer current. Most often this is the use of "thee" and "thou"; but a few other words will crop up. However, they're usually inferable from context, and the stories are marvellous entertainment regardless.

"The Blue Fairy Book" is amazing. I am planning to collect all of Andrew Lang's color fairy tale books. It has an excellent group of stories from different fairy tale writers, including Perrault, d'Aulnoy, and Grimm. This book was originally printed in the 19th century. It has not been abridged, nor have any of the original pictures been taken out. (Be warned, they're *artistic*) These are the original, unaltered by Disney versions, and contain the nightmarish plots they were meant to have. Anyone who collects fairy tales should have this.

Great book for small children - especially those who want to do things themselves and be very independent, but aren't quite there yet.

Great book for small children - teaches them that they can do many things on their own, but may sometimes need a little help. Good for that age where they want to be independent, but not quite ready yet.

Enhances children to read more fairytales and really gets them interested!!

As part of my teacher training, I am developing a bibliography of materials to be shared with 65 colleagues in a Children's Literature Course. I have listed this book as a general reference to a Holocaust unit designed with sixth and seventh graders in mind for its clear language, and the forward moving progression of the text. The words do now flow necessarily, but the feel is of a steady march toward the culmination of the book. The disembodied collage-effect of the illustrations, strictly black and white, gives power to the text. Intermittant negative imaging of white text on a black background also lends weight and tone to the text. Visually, it is not a comfortable read, as it should be, artistically speaking.

I have a problem with one aspect of the background information in the beginning of the book. The lack of historical background of eugenics work (pages 16-17)in the United States seems irresponsible. This ommission leaves the impression that only Britian and Germany developed eugenics. The United States during the mid-1800's into the early 1900's had a large piece of that terrible legacy. German "scientists" borrowed heavily from American research. Americans need credit regarding our share of responsibility for irresponsible medical practices, if fingers are to be pointed.

Otherwise this book responsibly covers a large amount of information in a very critical efficient manner.

Folklore and fairy tales can be a great springboard for the imagination and Mercer Mayer's preschool version of Little Red Riding Hood is one such delightful romp. This story re-told by Mercer Mayer in an earlier version for the Little Critter series has been refined for preschoolers. The sturdy, lift-the-flap board book is appropriate for its preschool market, yet the artwork and storytelling will keep amused the hapless adult who is asked to read it over and over again The slightly unisex Little Critter's unkempt, google-eyed appearance and one-tooth smile connects immediately with preschoolers. The illustrations are pen-and-ink rendered with bright, pleasant colors. Unlike many other books in the Little Critter series, the backgrounds in Little Red Riding Hood are not vignettes but fully detailed. Children and their caregivers will delight in finding bits of humor and other treasures in the drawings through repeated readings. Mayer's gift for affable artwork extends into the storytelling. With Critter's light spirit, readers should not expect the original story's violent end. It is through the artwork that Mayer makes it easy to side-step the discomfort of straying a bit from the original tale or, worse yet, making light of the violence. Grandma is not consumed, she hides in a closet. The woodcutter does not cut open the Big Bad Wolf, the comical-looking beast simply runs away never to be seen again. Readers will find the Mouse, one of Critter's endearing friends, as usual, on every page. Mouse does his part to find the humor in the moment and it is his comments that are underneath the flap on every page. At times, Mouse helps shed light on the unfolding drama, skillfully taking even more of the scare out of the story. "Here comes trouble" and "Look in here" are a few of Mouse's straight lines, but with Mayer's expressive drawing, particularly of Mouse's eyes, you can not help but be let in on the joke and laugh. If Little Critter is Mayer's self-portrait, Mouse is surely the omnipresent Greek chorus; a voice that speaks to the emerging spirit of preschoolers as well as to their caregivers who enjoy reconnecting with their own.

This Little Red Riding Hood story was really different than the other stories about Litle Red Riding Hood I have read. Most of them just tell about how she goes into the woods and meets the wolf and all, but this talked about how she got her red hood and how she went into town and all. I kind of liked the extra details because it helped me to visualize the story better in my head, but it just made the story longer.

My personal favorite Robin Hood tale. Pyle uses the langauge of the times in a most beautiful and authentic way that sends a thrill through any book-lover and sets the scene for the thoroughly merry and enjoyable adventures of Robin Hood and his companions.
This is no sad or tragic tale (for the most part, the epilogue is enough to draw tears)this story tells of the more lightsome side of medieval life. Full of jesters, bakers, butchers and dishonest jewelers most of which will meet with Robin in some way, either to exchange clothes and be handsomely tipped or to be dealt some of Robin's ironic view of justice.
You won't be dissapointed.

I thought this was a great book! It was exciting and made me want to come back for some more. The story was very easy to follow. I would read this book over and over again and still not get tired of it. I thought the plot was especially good. Though there were many different characters in the same spot at times, I thought that the large amount of characters gave this book a twist. This story in particular is very interesting and is sometimes comical. It is about Robin Hood and his group of Merry Men hiding in Sherwood Forest from the Sheriff of Nottingham.Whenever the sheriff sends someone into Sherwood Forest to catch Robin Hood, the man either ends up converted to the group of Merry Men or he ends up running out of the forest with arrows whizzing by his head. I thought this was one of the best written books that I have read. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good book and has a thirst for knowledge.

Pyle's book is simply THE GREATEST version of the Robin Hood legend ever written (it is no wonder it has been in print for one hundred years). The poetic Medieval english is never too difficult for readers of a young age because the dialogue is stirring, a blood-rousing call to adventure with Robin and his merry men. Pyle perfectly captures everything that makes the Robin Hood legend still compelling today, without making the battles between noble Robin and the corrupt government of early England into a treacly, heavy-handed lesson in morals (unlike many of the books his contemporaries were writing).

This book is especially fun to read aloud; it was a popular read with the kids I babysat for in high school. (Plus, what kid doesn't dream once in a while of running away and living in the forest, hunting deer with longbows, and showing off in front of the damsel of his dreams by defeating the "bad guy" in a duel of broadswords?)

I bought this version of the popular fairy tale as a gift for my niece. After I received it, I was horrified to read in detail about how the huntsman cut open the wolf's stomach to look for the grandmother. It then goes on to read, ". . . after a few more slashes a little girl jumped out.." This was not at all what I had envisioned as a gift for a young girl. I wish I had been warned to buy the story from a different author.

this book was very scary and ummmm... i-i didn't like it, it scared me!

The illustrations in this book are very similar to those of Jan Brett but darker tones used. There is always something hidden w/in the pictures for children to look for and the illustrations help enhance the tale.

I also recommend Lon Po Po.