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'The wolf thought to himself, "What a tender young creature! what a nice plump mouthful - she will be better to eat than the old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both."'

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2 authors picked Grimms' Fairy Tales as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

This book in collection of fairy tale stories is filled as a treasure trove with lessons, rhymes, and songs to dance about my heart, whether in a light-hearted fantasy fair beat or in a requiem drama of heart strings pulled where my very tears seem to harmonize the general melody in tone the book sings to in its many narratives.

However, there are a few pieces much too dark for my taste, such as “The Juniper Tree” and “The Fitcher’s Bird,” and though those are dead to me, the others that speak their many themes of joy and sorrow more…

In the middle of the night, when I reach for a book to avoid a midnight worry-fest, I love to read fairy tales. The Grimms' Fairy Tales are wonderful because they are very short, and there is a huge variety of stories in these collections. I don't want to read for hours, I just want to read enough to go back to sleep and have some wonderful dreams. Now, many of the Grimms fairy tales are violent and deal with extreme situations, but for me, this is like cartoon violence—they make me think, sometimes they make me laugh, but they…

From Rebecca's list on to reach for in the middle of the night.

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