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From: Ruth I. Gordon <Druthgo>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:49:24 -0700
It's a fairly easy task to read the Perrault version of "Tom Thumb" to see how the author used the bones of an old story. The writing-- and the superb translation--convey each character.
For a readership--won't that depend on the maturity and skill of the reader. However, I think it can be a difficult book to read aloud,i.e., to an AUDI-ence.
And please, do recall, how it is the sea that calls the central character and the action. It also gives the protagonist his way out.
How many folk tales have as a central theme, "mis-hearing?" "The sky is falling." "They have weapons of mass destruction." Then everything goes to a hell.
Big Grandma
Happy Saint Patrick's
Received on Fri 16 Mar 2007 09:49:24 PM CDT
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:49:24 -0700
It's a fairly easy task to read the Perrault version of "Tom Thumb" to see how the author used the bones of an old story. The writing-- and the superb translation--convey each character.
For a readership--won't that depend on the maturity and skill of the reader. However, I think it can be a difficult book to read aloud,i.e., to an AUDI-ence.
And please, do recall, how it is the sea that calls the central character and the action. It also gives the protagonist his way out.
How many folk tales have as a central theme, "mis-hearing?" "The sky is falling." "They have weapons of mass destruction." Then everything goes to a hell.
Big Grandma
Happy Saint Patrick's
Received on Fri 16 Mar 2007 09:49:24 PM CDT
