The Wolf and the Seven Little Kids
Grimm's Complete Fairy Tales
Fairy tales
Books-A-Million
2012
Hardcover
977
For almost two centuries, the stories of magic and myth gathered by the Brothers Grimm have been part of the way children—and adults—learn about the vagaries of the real world. Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow-White, Hänsel and Gretel, Little Red-Cap (a.k.a. Little Red Riding Hood), and Briar-Rose (a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty) are only a few of more than 200 enchanting characters included here. Lyrically translated and beautifully illustrated, the tales are presented just as Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm originally set them down: bold, primal, just frightening enough, and endlessly engaging.
WrensReads Review:
I have the complete set of the Grimm Fairy-Tales, and there are so many that I haven’t read! They are very short, as one would know, so I have decided to read each one and give them a review. Some are very vulgar, some are very cute and some don’t even make sense. Some of them are well known fairy-tales and some have never been told. Some are fairy-tales we know but are not the same because they have been downplayed for the children.
This story reminds me a lot of Little Red Riding Hood. The wolf wants to eat them all and swallows a group of the kids (which are goats in this case, not human children) whole. He deceives them a few times and they accidently let him in. So actually, it is a little mix of the Three Little Pigs too.
I would say this book can be read to kids. There isn’t anything creepy, unless you count a wolf wanting to eat goats (which is nature and it isn’t gross reading, so I feel it is okay).
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