title: The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales: Expanded Second Edition
author:  Maria Tatar 
description: "Tatar's main concern is with the enduring hold of the tales on children's imaginations. Why should they enjoy stories about other children sent out to die in a wood, or being victimized by cruel stepmothers, or given impossible tasks to perform, and (if female) forced to marry frogs or bears? . . . <i>The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales</i>--related in language that is sharp, lively, and free of jargon--is delightful evidence that Grimm scholarship can give pleasure to the general reader."<b>---Janet Adam Smith, <i>New York Review of Books</i></b><br /><br />"For scholars, students, and general readers, Tatar's book is a balanced, sensitive, and informative guide to the content and context of Grimms' fairy tales."<b>---Merle Rubin, <i>The Christian Science Monitor</i></b><br /><br />"Tatar takes detours into literary history here and into comparative anthropology there. What results is at once intelligently eclectic and refreshingly commonsensical, a thoughtful ramble through the dark childhood woods that haunt our adult dreams."<b>---Carl Maves, <i>San Francisco Chronicle</i></b><br /><br />"A clear, imaginative and fascinating illumination of the stories we thought we knew." (<i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i>)
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  **The Grimm Diaries**
  
   **Prequels**
  
   **15-18**
  
  The Grimm Diaries Series
  
  by Cameron Jace
  
    
  
  [ www.CameronJace.com](http://cameronjace.com/)
  
  Edited by Jami Hampson
  
    
  
  Copyright © 2012 Akmal Eldin Farouk Ali Shebl
  
  All rights are reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any
  manner whatsoever without written permission from the author.
  
    
  
  This book is a work of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents
  are products of the writer's imagination or have been used fictitiously, and
  are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to persons, living or dead,
  actual events, locales or organizations is entirely coincidental. All facts
  concerning fairy tales publication dates, scripts, and historical events
  mentioned in this book are true. The interpretations and fantasy elements
  aren’t. They are the author’s imagination.
  
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  **Contents**
  
   _Forward_
  
   _Prologue for the Prequels_
  
   _Snow White Black Swan_
  
   _The Pumpkin Piper_
  
   _Prince