Illustration of "Lin Haiyin's Fables"
From most of human history, children's intellectual life, besides their life in their families, comes from myths, folklore and fairy tales. In "The Charm of Fairy Tales", psychologist Bruno Betelheim highly affirms the unparalleled value of fairy tales to children. He believes that fairy tales always concisely express human survival dilemma and character conflicts in dilemma, guiding children to choose good and evil, and thus discover the call of themselves and the heart.
fairy tales are full of fantasy elements. Under the telling of generations, many basic plots have evolved into different stories around the world, and most of them follow a similar framework, starting with "Once Upon a Time...", then the protagonist encounters difficulties and obstacles, and finally, the rain passes by and the sky is clear, and he lives a happy life. The folk fairy tales that are known to the public are mainly Grimm's fairy tales. In fact, there are not only writers who organize and repost folk fairy tales, but also the later Calvino , Pushkin , Thompson, Angela Carter , etc. They make the story more colorful and not limited to the love between princes and princesses.
From a global perspective, whether it is a fairy or a monster, their definitions vary greatly under different cultures. Many stories read like hodgepodge, mixing various fragments of history and distance. After being repaired by the writers, in addition to retaining a rich local color, they also reflect the writer's own creative style in the description of subtle areas and the extension of imagination. The second article of the summer book list of
, we chose a group of fairy tale books suitable for parents to accompany them to read or for primary and secondary school students to read independently and mainly written. Because most cultures do not have clear boundaries to distinguish myths, folk stories from fairy tales, our book list also includes these three types of story forms. Most of them are recreational works by writers on oral legends or ancient records, and have presented a new look after the planning of different publishing houses in China and abroad.
According to the title of the book, the book list is divided into writer's chapter and country chapter, which are arranged in the order of reading from easy to difficult. "Writer's Chapter" is a re-telling of folk fairy tales by famous writers. "National Chapter" is a collection of fairy tales based on different countries. Due to the limited length of the book list, there are many famous story collections, such as "The Golden Rhyme of Briggs Goose Mother's Children's Rhyme", " Niels' Goose Travel Notes ", "Hoff's Fairy Tale", "Greek Myth", and "Bello's Fairy Tale", which was earlier than Perot's fairy tale, etc., which are not included in the book list. If readers are interested, they can continue to search.
Part.1 Writer's Chapter
"Lin Haiyin's Fables" (4 volumes in total), Lin Haiyin /Edited by Zhang Shiming/painted, Dandelion Children's Book Library | Guizhou People's Publishing House January 2013
This set of books is more than 50 fables told by the famous writer Mr. Lin Haiyin (1918-2001), and is drawn and illustrated by the famous painter Mr. Zhang Shiming. Among them are familiar to the children, "Print the Dragon", "Caring the Boat and Seeking the Sword", "The Donkey's Skills to Be End", "Ye Gong Good Dragon", "Paradise", "Looking at the Plum to Squeeze Thirst", "Cup Bow and Snake Shadow", " Yugong Moves Mountains ", "Blind Man Touching Elephant", etc. The story is concise and vivid, and the paintings are also very Chinese, and each picture is an exquisite work.
"New Fairy Tale", [France] Countess Seguer/Written by Huang Zi/Translated by Li Bingjie/Picture, Yilin Publishing House October 2020.
Countess Seguer (1799-1874) was born in a famous family in Tsarist Russia. Later, he moved to Paris to settle down. He was the pioneer of French children's literature, about a century later than Charles Perrot. In 1856, Countess Seguer, who was 57 years old, entered the literary world with her debut work "New Fairy Tale". Most of her creative inspiration came from her childhood. Later, her works were translated into many languages and widely circulated. Her fairy tales are mainly written for her grandchildren. After "The New Fairy Tales", she has published works called "Sophie's Troubles", " Little Lady " and "Sophie's Holiday", which are also deeply loved by children.
This book "New Fairy Tale" follows many traditional fairy tale narrative techniques, and includes five long stories: "blond princess, good doe and handsome cat", "good kid little Henry", "little rose princess", "little grey mouse" and "bear boy". Compared with Perot's fairy tales and Green fairy tales, Countess Seguel's story is richer, with relatively many characters and scenes appearing, and the plot is more complicated. The repeated use of rhetorical techniques such as repetition, exaggeration, and contrast makes the story more dramatic and infectious.
The story of Countess Seguer is also a projection of the vigorous development of French urbanization and popular culture in the mid-to-late 19th century, and many delicate descriptions of daily life and customs and worldly feelings have appeared. For example, in the story of Little Henry, Little Henry is a child from a poor family. He cuts wheat, harvests grapes, hunts and fishes on the way to find grass of life, which gives young readers a specific understanding of labor and all walks of life.
However, her story is like Perot's fairy tale, with a clear intention of moral education, aiming to help children maintain qualities such as kindness, courage, and honesty, and reject the dark side of human nature such as evil, sinister, and cruelty.
"Selected Fairy Tales of Pushkin", [Russia] Pushkin/Written by [Russia] Natalia Goncharova [France] Edmund Durak /Picture, Sima Tianyi Li Houren/Translated by, Waves | Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House February 2021.
This is a book in the "Great Writer to Children" series produced by Langhua Duoduo, which contains two stories written by Pushkin (1799-1837): "The Prince and the Swan Princess" and "The Golden Rooster". Pushkin is known for writing fairy tales, but these two stories changed the original form of poetry after being translated and published in French. Among them, "Prince and Princess Swan" is Pushkin's fairy tale poem "The Story of Tsar Saltan, his son - the mighty warrior Grand Duke Jidong and the beautiful Princess Swan". "The Golden Rooster" is the last of Pushkin's six fairy tales and was first published in 1835.
Pushkin was born in a declined aristocratic family and was cared for by wet nurses and nanny since childhood. The nanny was Pushkin's enlightenment teacher and told him many fairy tales, which later became the source of inspiration for Pushkin's creation. Pushkin created the creation of fairy tale poems, and attached special importance to the setting and description of fairy tale characters. His creations not only have great significance for the history of fairy tales in Russian , but also an important manifestation of Russian cultural thought in the 19th century. In addition to the two stories included in this book, Pushkin's other fairy tale poems include " The Story of the Fisherman and the Goldfish ", "The Story of the Mother Bear", "The Story of the Priest and His Long-time Worker Barda", and "The Story of the Dead Princess and the Seven Warriors".
"Uncle Remus tells a story: a smart rabbit and a stupid fox", [US] Joel Chandler Harris /, [Russia] M.A. Gorshenzova/adapted, [Russia] Igor Olenikov/painted Wang Yinan/translated, Dandelion Children's Library | Guizhou People's Publishing House June 2022.
"Uncle Remus" is a collection of animal stories, ballads and oral folklores by Joel Chandler Harris (1848-1908) collected and compiled by black people in the southern United States. Uncle Remus is also the fictional narrator of these stories. They were published in 1881, with a total of seven copies published. The story revolves around Brother Rabbit, Brother Fox and Brother Bear, which is very similar to the fables of Aesop and the fables of La Fondan.
This book selects 12 stories from the "Uncle Remus" series, enhancing the humor of the story. In the book, Uncle Remus will tell these stories to a boy named Joel, and while he is talking, he is interspersed with Joel's questions and Uncle Remus' answers, which makes people feel very friendly. In the story of
, the wolf and the fox have been trying to eat the rabbit, but the more traps they can set, the rabbit has the same way to get out, and it can also make the wolf and the fox look ugly. The illustration's painter Igor Olenikov was born in Moscow in 1953. He is a well-known Russian artist and winner of the 2018 International Andersen Award Illustrator Award.
"Calvino Italian Fairy Tale" (3 sets in total), [Italy] Italo Calvino/edited by Mao Mengsa Peng Qian/translated by, Waves | Shanghai People's Art Publishing House August 2021.
Italo Calvino (1923-1985) is an Italian writer, whose representative works include "HTM3 Baron on the Tree" and "HTM3 Viscount in Two Half". He carefully collected and screened 200 folk tales scattered throughout Italy over the centuries, and assembled into the Italian Fairy Tale in 1956.
His purpose is to follow the example of the original narrator of the story "Hot Cat in Boots ", Italian writer Straparola, to organize fairy tales popular in Italy for readers. During the writing he also pointed out the origin of each story and commented on the altered areas. The stories were first translated into English in 1962 and are the first collection of Italian folk tales.
These three sets of books have selected more than 60 of them from 200 stories, divided into three volumes, each with 5 volumes. 13 masters of illustration were invited to draw more than 1,400 illustrations. Compared with Grimm's fairy tales, Calvino's Italian fairy tales are less dull and gloomy, full of a simple country atmosphere, and also with Calvino's personal style.
"Thompson World Folk Story Golden Dictation: 100 Human Stories", [US] Stie Thompson/editor, Ma Yiming Hu Jinjia/translation Yu Gongzi/painting, Yuefu Culture | Beijing United Publishing Company June 2021. The English version of the book
was published in 1968 and is a collection of folk stories selected by American folklorist Stith Thompson (1885-1970). Thompson has written and translated a large number of books and articles related to folk customs, but his most famous achievement is in the classification of folk tales themes. The stories in
are selected from 17 countries and regions around the world. Every story is not too long. Thompson's criteria for selecting the editor are: first, it represents a certain form of story recognized by people; second, this kind of story is most well-known to people at that time; third, the story must be wonderful.
Therefore, the stories in the book are not based on local or historical traditions, nor are they focused on interesting stories or simple animal stories (including written literary works and oral legends), but only those that have been polished by time, have a recognizable plot, and are most popular. We can also see the original appearance of many familiar stories from this book, such as "Hensel and Gretel" and "Sleeping Beauty". The illustrations in the book are painted by Yu Gongzi.
" Angela Carter's Strange Stories ", [English] Angela Carter/editor, Zheng Ranran/translated, Nanjing University Press September 2011.
Angela Carter (1940-1992), born in Eastbourne, England, is one of the most original writers in the UK. His writing style is a mixture of magical realism, Goetheistic and feminist.
This book combines two collections of stories edited by Angela Carter, namely "The Collection of Story of the Shrews" published in 1990 and "The Collection of Story of the Shrews" published in 1992. These stories come from the European continent, the Caribbean , the United States, the Arctic, Africa, the Middle East and Asia, but they have one thing in common, that is, they all revolve around a heroine, whether she is smart, brave, kind, or ignorant, cruel, insidious, or how unfortunate she is, she is the center of the story.
Angela Carter wants to use these stories to illustrate how colorful the female traits are in the "unofficial" culture, such as her plan, her plot and her hard work.
Part.2 National
"Chinese Strange Story", Che Xilun Sun Shuying edited by, Nanjing University Press May 2021. The book
is divided into two books, carefully compiled and selected by well-known folk operas and folk customs researchers, and collected and compiled nearly 300 weird stories from Chinese folk stories. The upper left corner of each article indicates its circulating area. He also included more than 100 rare folk paper-cuts in the late Qing Dynasty.
There are often many "singles" in Chinese folk legends.From the perspective of modern science, eccentrics naturally do not exist, but the long-lasting writing of eccentrics has its own unique cultural significance. In the past, people used quirky to express an unrealized desire and called for a moral concept. The formation of geniuses is often closely related to the natural appearance, such as the story of snail girl that we are familiar with. This story was originally circulated in Houguan County . There is a Luojiang River in the place. It is said that it was formed by the shell of the snail girl. Perhaps because the estuary of the river is wide and shaped like a snail shell, it is related to the snail girl. This connection between the eccentrics and mountains, rivers and rivers also allows people in modern industrial society to express their pastoral nostalgia in the eccentric stories.
In "Chinese Strange Story", animals, plants and trees can become spirits, and have a love-hate entanglement with humans. The story's narrator comes from all over China, carrying abundant collective memory and folk energy. Such a story is touching. Their stories will eventually become older as time goes by. In the story, the cultural identity of the national is awakened, and epics and myths are born from it.
"The Princess Saving the Prince: A Female Fairy Tale to Awaken the World", [US] Allen B. Zhinian/Written by Shu Wei Ding Suping/Translation, Magic Elephant | Guangxi Normal University Press May 2017.
is different from other books on the book list, this book is divided into popular psychology reading materials. The author Allen selected 12 from the collection of fairy tales with women as the main characters. Some of them are familiar stories, such as " Beauty and the Beast ", and some are relatively unfamiliar stories, thus demonstrating the breadth and depth of female fairy tales with stories from different cultures. After each story is told, he will make a comment from the perspective of psychology and feminism.
These 12 stories reverse the plot of the teenage fairy tale. Now the king is sleeping, and the queen must awaken him. Only the queen can rescue their kingdom from a spell. These stories are passed down from grandmothers to granddaughters, and for women they contain challenges and hopes, telling women how to revive their wisdom and strength. Allen also analyzed the five characteristics of female fairy tales, believing that they provide society with new paradigms beyond the patriarchal tradition.
In addition to this book, Allen also wrote "History of Male Evolution in Fairy Tales ", "From Now - Fairy Tales and the Second Half of Human Life" and "Adult Psychological Fairy Tales", and also chose fairy tales from different angles for interpretation.
"Stories Telled 1 Million Times" series, Yuefu Culture | Beijing United Publishing Company.
This is a collection of world stories planned and published by Yuefu Culture in 2020. It has a volume of 9 volumes and 14 volumes, about 1,000 classic stories, involving more than 20 countries and regions, and brings together many outstanding authors and compilers.
A new "Japanese Talk" was added in 2021, using the three volumes of "Japanese Talk" compiled by Mr. Guan Jinggo, a male disciple of Yanagida and famous folklorist (Iwaha Bookstore, 1956-1957). The stories are traditional folk stories that have been passed down in Japan from ancient times to the present and have been told to the old men and women in the village from generation to generation. From them, we can find many of the roots of Japanese literature , and even the source of story types in Japanese comic works.
Norwegian volume, the original version is "Norwegian Fairy Tale" written by Asbeyonson. It is the only nearly complete translation from Norwegian so far. Russian volume, the original version is " Russian Fairy Tale " written by Afanasiev. This is a famous Russian writer who has been influenced by this fairy tale collection.
African volume not only compiles a large amount of literature, but also records more than 50 oral stories in Congo (Blossom). Finnish volume, from the famous Finnish fairy tale writer and fairy tale master Raul Loinai , he selected and recreated a large collection of Finnish fairy tales from a large collection of fairy tales from the Finnish Literary Society. The compiler of German and Nordic volumes, , German , is a famous translator and children's literature theorist Cao Naiyun. The compilers of the Indian volume are Liu Xicheng and Ma Changyi.Dong Tianqi, one of the compilers of the African and French volumes, taught for two years at the University of Brazzaville, Congo and the University of Paris Seventh, France.
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