Grimms' Fairy Tales
by Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm · first published 1945
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Grimms' Fairy Tales (Leather-bound Classics edition) I have been a dad for 18 years and am about to have my 7th kid. I read lots of different kids books to them, but usually when they are about 5 they start to love it when…
on “Ask HN: What's your favorite children's books?” ↗…You might try Grimm's Fairy Tales[1] if haven't read yet, but aim for original/older edition[2] as originally it was quite violent but softened increasingly over time. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimms'_Fairy_Tales 2. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/
on “Hedgehogs, the Keepers of Order and Knowledge in Slavic Fairy Tales” ↗…read while growing up in the US in the late 1960s left that part out. More interestingly, the Grimm Brothers themselves altered many of their own stories substantially in the 7 or so full editions of Grimms' Fairy Tales they published before 1857. Some of the originals were pretty crude. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimms%27_Fairy_Tales)
on “Tolkien Expressed a “Heartfelt Loathing” for Walt Disney” ↗…respectively. I clearly remember that some of those drawings were really dark. It's a bit like dark horror stories if you look at it today - here is a summary: https://discover.hubpages.com/literature/Grimms-Fairy-Tales-... It starts with "There are some fairy tales that are just not meant for kids.". Some of the pictures by Grimm or illustrators are quite scary, such as the bleeding or weeping out of eyes ... is gross.…
on “Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered” ↗Some of the books people often think are suitable for children are pretty disturbing, too, such as Grimms' Fairy Tales. When these are adapted for cartoons by Disney and others they are usually greatly sanitized. A parent who remembers those adaptations and thinks that is what they are getting when they get the original…
on “Algorithm That Makes Preschoolers Obsessed with YouTube” ↗…I never heard about #ElsaGate before. There is obviously a pedagogic message in the videos. The main problem seems that leaving the kids unattended watching these videos doesn't work here. Similar to Grimms' Fairy Tales or children stories from Shockheaded Peter. Parents need to read these books to their children in order to give them feedback. I've read some texts by Prof. Dr. Stefan Aufenanger from University of Mainz…
on “Silicon Valley is erasing individuality” ↗I think there are morals in Grimms Fairy Tales even in the earliest versions. What is striking to me when I read them is that many of the stories come from people at the bottom level of society and reflected their struggle for survival. These include…
on “Unique volumes of Brothers Grimm fairy tales discovered in Poland” ↗