Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie, ⭐⭐⭐
Read in May 2020 I noticed that Hamilton Wright Mabie combines different elements into one fairytale. For example: * One Eye, Two Eyes, Three Eyes was very similar to Cinderella * The Magic Mirror had echoes of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. * The start of the Enchanted Stag sounded a lot like Hansel and Gretel I was even surprised to find some linked to Arthurian legend. How interesting! A few stories were new to me but I'd heard the majority before. Maybe it's because I'm familiar with a lot of the stories but I would have liked a bit more creativity in these retellings. Some were quite trite and simplistic while others had unexpected darkness. Most were very repetitive. I also think that reading the originals would have been better because something appears to have been lost in translation here.