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A beautiful collection featuring four classic fairy-tales, illustrated with Pieńkowski's silhouette art style on some breathtaking coloured backgrounds. The fairy-tales that are included in this book are the Grimm's Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty; and Charles Perroult's version of Cinderella. I was really happy to see that David Walser faithfully translated the original tales and included some of the more grisly details that are often edited out. The striking silhouettes gave such a divinely mysterious feeling to some of the tales, especially as the Grimm's versions can be quite dark in places.

The level of detail in some of the pictures is impressive and it often takes a minute to really look at the image and see all the tiny details. The rich background colours really give an almost spooky and magical vibe which I could imagine would be quite fascinating for children, especially. A preview of a couple of the illustrations can be seen here.

I really enjoyed this stunning book and I would highly recommend it to everyone who cherishes fairy-tales. ( )

This book consists of different classic tales retold by Dabid Walser and illustrated by Jan Peinkowski. One of the stories that I read was Hansel and Gretal and loved to relive the tale of the evil stepmother, the witch and the two siblings try and find their way home after the stepmother planned and scemed to get the children away from her and her husband for the sake of saving money. ( )

I think that this collection of fairy tales was great to read and would be fun to have students compare it to different versions of the same story.