The Random House Children’s Treasury: Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes & Nonsense Verse
December 11th, 2009 by Al
Product Description
With over 200,000 copies sold, our beautifully color illustrated Children’s Treasury is full of fairy tales, nursery rhymes and children’s verse that will entertain the entire family. Many favorites are presented, including Cinderella, The Owl and the Pussycat, Rumpelstiltzkin, Aesop’s Fables, Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, and Thumbelina. These stories are both enchanting and educational, combining simple morals with… More >>
The Random House Children’s Treasury: Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes & Nonsense Verse
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December 11th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
This book is horrible. It is not true to the original classic stories! Most of the endings, of the stories I’ve read so far, are different. I don’t care for the illustrations either. I was very dissapointed. I bought this for my neices, and didn’t read the book until they came to visit me, and by then it was too late to return this book. It’s basically going in the trash.
Rating: 1 / 5
December 11th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
My poor baby…2 months and still no stories. The vendor has delayed shipping the item 3 times now, and I finally cancelled the order…Do not order this book, although the book may be great, you will never know, as the publisher will keep delaying publication while it collects your money and waits for enough money to make money….Amazon is also no help in this matter, I am going to Barnes and Noble or Borders, this is Bullsh$%!
Rating: 1 / 5
December 11th, 2009 at 8:42 pm
I love this book! It reminds me if a very old book my grandparents used to have. I’m glad I got this book, because it is out of print now. The pictures illustrating the stories are a little more modern, but there are some that remind me of the old book my grandparents used to read us!
Rating: 5 / 5
December 11th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
This is a great book with real Nursery Rhymes. Great pictures, for children to enjoy, and not illustrated to frighten children with graphic dark images. A wonderful book to snuggle up with children and read to them and instill the desire to read in the future.
Rating: 5 / 5
December 12th, 2009 at 1:49 am
We bought this book last year when our son was 4, but looking at some of the illustrations (which were too scary), we kept it on the shelf. The problem is not so much the illustrations (which are great), but that with a sometimes small illustration sitting in a sea of words, the child is forced to only look at the frightening graphic for a long time (such as the giant — a fanged cyclops — from Jack and the Beanstalk crashing to earth while holding a spiked club). We’ve since read some of the nursery rhymes, but wanted to read some classics, like Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks, etc. Last night, I read Tom Thumb to my son. It features King Arthur, Queen Mab (the fairy queen) and Merlin, so the magical qualities (I thought) should delight him. Within moments, Tom is baked in a pudding, nearly eaten by a cow, grabbed by a bird, swallowed by a giant, vomited into the sea and eaten by a fish (twice), released by King Arthur’s cook, knighted, picked up and returned by the Fairy Queen to Arthur (but drops from the wind into Arthur’s wine and is sentenced to death for treason), tossed in a river, chased by a cat, falls out of grace with a new queen, sentenced to death again, escapes on a butterfly but is trapped in a mousetrap, and is finally killed by a spider.
My son said, “Never. Read. That. Again.”
As a treasury of classics, the book is great. Well organized, well illustrated, and pretty complete. Now, I love the wicked cruelty bits (such as that found in the Brothers Grimm) just as much as the magical bits when the stories can be viewed as allegory or metaphor, but this book is now moved into my home office, and I will be searching for the “sanitized” re-tellings of the classics. Later, my son can learn the true stories, but for now, as he continues to learn about story structure, a happy ending (even when it’s not the true version) means more to me than the faithful reproduction of 16th and 17th century works.
Rating: 2 / 5