tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post467448338310946827..comments2024-03-28T17:53:43.541-04:00Comments on DarwinCatholic: BibliobiliaDarwinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08572976822786862149noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-64882365317753652052012-02-25T11:24:56.991-05:002012-02-25T11:24:56.991-05:00looks like you have a beautiful edition of the fai...looks like you have a beautiful edition of the fairy tales book with franz kredel's illustrations! i did a small post about his work (http://illobook.com/laura/2010/12/08/inspiration-chart/) but my copy of the book is too mangled to scan without destroying it. let me know if you ever get around to scanning more illustrations!laura t.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-53964504339667690562011-07-21T22:06:15.494-04:002011-07-21T22:06:15.494-04:00I have just recently stumbled on to your blog and ...I have just recently stumbled on to your blog and find your on going discussion of reading fare so interesting. Sounds to me like your homeschooling experience was a little more than "laissez faire. Perhaps your parents, like mine, emphasized the spiritual over the academic. In the end I found that I indeed got or caught what I needed with a very strong faith to boot.<br /><br />What kind of records did your mother have? Were they albums or 45's?JohnJnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-15307767934062862952011-07-21T17:37:11.881-04:002011-07-21T17:37:11.881-04:00My mother had a wonderful old book called "Gr...My mother had a wonderful old book called "Granny's Wonderful Chair" that I read over and over, and I read it to my daughter as well... It was about this little girl who lived with her grandmother. Her grandmother went on a trip and told her to take care of herself and, every night, put her head on the seat and say, "Chair of my grandmother, tell me a story." And of course she had an adventure with the chair, which ended up telling its amazing stories to a king and his court. They were not like any other fairy stories I have ever read, and some are still my favorites!<br /><br />The book, like the Lloyd Alexander Taran books and the two Princess and the Goblin books (also favorites!), had a rather melancholy end... A happy ending, but then a few paragraphs about how it all ended again and unhappiness came back.<br /><br />LOVED The Princess and the Goblins. MacDonald certainly had some wild ideas! I love her grandmother, who was simultaneously old and young, and the fire made of roses...Gail Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11740482509910163332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-53683155910098293372011-07-21T17:37:03.297-04:002011-07-21T17:37:03.297-04:00+JMJ+
The Goose Girl is one of my favourites as ...+JMJ+ <br /><br /><i>The Goose Girl</i> is one of my favourites as well! =D A cousin and I once got into a fight over the right way to pronounce Falada. (I said FA-la-da. She said Fa-LA-da. But her version sounded better, so these days, I say Fa-LA-da.) <br /><br />You know, I never thought about the prince getting to bed two wives before this. =P But then again, he really doesn't have much personality in the story, does he? (I owned one retelling which made it clear that he wasn't very happy with the imposter, but still treated her with the respect he believed his wife deserved. But that's really all I know about his character.) It's the king who is the real hero who saves the princess.Enbrethilielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03414765854670926854noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-71167423920743395952011-07-21T16:09:24.273-04:002011-07-21T16:09:24.273-04:00I remember being scared of Grimms as a kid. My mot...I remember being scared of Grimms as a kid. My mother read Cinderella to me, and the violence (feet chopped off, or something like that) was too much for my sensitive little self. I'm much more jaded now, and I should go back and read them.Laurennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-19790158816607157232011-07-21T13:14:31.342-04:002011-07-21T13:14:31.342-04:00My sisters and I used to listen to the "Let&...My sisters and I used to listen to the "Let's Pretend" records when the babies were napping and our absolutely favorite story was Goose Girl! We loved it. You have a remarkable memory, I don't think I could have summed it up so well:) Thanks for the memories!JMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02542004362101344466noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13522238.post-74809139482043157772011-07-21T12:19:53.549-04:002011-07-21T12:19:53.549-04:00I'm so glad you like Jorinda and Joringel!
Ou...I'm so glad you like Jorinda and Joringel!<br /><br />Our copy of Grimm was extremely ugly on the outside, and not much better on the inside. Also, huge. Intimidating. But I did eventually read them all, including the stories about Jesus and St. Peter, and Death. The only one we didn't have was The Juniper Tree. (I guess the cannibal cookpot thing was too much for the editors.)<br /><br />The version of Goose Girl about Charlemagne's parents is better - no hankypanky with the false princess, IIRC.<br /><br />We had a beautiful copy of Once Long Ago, though, a collection of fairy tales from around the world with truly incredible illustrations. And Larousse's Mythology, which back then was awesome but now is vastly dumbed down (although the African section is better now).Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.com