Sunday, January 03, 2010
Will the Re-Imagining Never End?
Children won't digest feeble tales of vegetarian wolves | Mail Online: "In Tempar's version of Little Red Riding Hood (The True Story of Little Red Riding Hood by Agnese Baruzzi and Sandro Natalin) the Wolf is shooed away, makes friends with Little Red Riding Hood, and becomes a vegetarian. In the Usbourne Illustrated Fairy Tales the wolf discovers healthy eating and lives on boiled carrots."
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In my experience, both as a mom and as someone who worked in an elementary school library, kids love the original stories, the Grimm brothers' versions, the gorier, the better. It's the parents who want everything sanitized--stories without danger, horror, or bad things happening. The kids just snooze through those updated stories, but pull out the story with Cinderella's sisters cutting off their toes to make their feet fit the glass slipper and they're all ears!
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