Thursday, July 28, 2011

Yummy! Eight Favorite Fairy Tales

Cousins, L. (2009). Yummy: Eight favorite fairy tales. Somerville, Mass: Candlewick Press.
 
This is a collection of eight fairy tales, with the traditional endings.  The illustrations are not  traditional though; they are very bright, simple line drawings with bold primary colors.  The big bad wolf eats the little pigs, but the last pig boiled and ate him in return.  I actually liked that the traditional "violent endings" were left in.  I have learned that a lot of my students have never heard some of these fairy tales, so I'm glad that they live on in books like this, which are simple and easy to read.

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