Fairy Tales and stories for childrens. Book 4

Fairy Tales and stories for childrens. Book 4:  1. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault; 2. Puck of Pook's Hill; 3. Rewards and Fairies; 4. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm.


1. The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault. 

The book includes:

Little red riding-hood; The fairy; Blue Beard; The sleeping beauty in the wood;  The maste cat, or, Puss in boots;  Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper; Riquet with the tuf;  Little thumb;  The ridiculous wishes;  Donkey-skin.


2. Puck of Pook's Hill by Rudyard Kipling.

Puck of Pook's Hill is a fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1906, containing a series of short stories set in different periods of English history. It can count both as historical fantasy – since some of the stories told of the past have clear magical elements, and as contemporary fantasy – since it depicts a magical being active and practising his magic in the England of the early 1900s when the book was written.


3. Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling.

Rewards and Fairies is a historical fantasy book by Rudyard Kipling published in 1910. The title comes from the poem "Farewell, Rewards and Fairies" by Richard Corbet. The poem is referred to by the children in the first story of the preceding book Puck of Pook's Hill. Rewards and Fairies is set one year later chronologically although published four years afterwards.

The book consists of a series of short stories set in historical times with a linking contemporary narrative. Dan and Una are two children, living in the Weald of Sussex in the area of Kipling's own home Bateman's. They have encountered Puck and he magically conjures up real and fictional individuals from Sussex's past to tell the children some aspect of its history and prehistory, though the episodes are not always historically accurate. Another recurring character is Old Hobden who represents the continuity of the inhabitants of the land. His ancestors sometimes appear in the stories and seem very much like him.

Some stories contain elements of the supernatural as well as history. Each story is preceded and followed by a poem, including If—, often described as Britain's favourite poem. 


4. Household Tales by Brothers Grimm.

These fairy tales by brothers Grimm are based on the original 1884 translation Household Tales of Margaret Hunt.

Their first collection of folk tales, Children's and Household Tales (Kinder- und Hausmärchen), was published in 1812.

The popularity of the Grimms' collected folk tales has endured well. The tales are available in more than 100 languages and have been later adapted by filmmakers including Lotte Reiniger and Walt Disney, with films such as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Sleeping Beauty. In the mid-20th century, the tales were used as propaganda by the Third Reich; later in the 20th century psychologists such as Bruno Bettelheim reaffirmed the value of the work, in spite of the cruelty and violence in original versions of some of the tales, which the Grimms eventually sanitized.