what is the most impressive fairy tale when you're young?

[Jinny5757]

I love Pinocchio

Rumplestiltskin! I loved that fairytale, but I also found it terrifying.

Little Red Riding Hood and later the wonderful Company of Wolves. I studied fairytales at university.

Never heard of the Rumplestiltskin. What's the plot?

Rumplestiltskin, Hansel and Grettel, Rapunzel

They were all a bit scary and had some nasty bits in. The version of Rapunzel I knew she had her hair cut off and her eyes pecked out by birds and wandered lost until she found the prince or something like that. In Hansel and Grettel I think their dad was abusive too. They were not nice stories. Also the Cinderella I knew the sisters cut off parts of their feet.

The Snow Queen

The Enormous Turnip and The Elves and the Shoemaker. They are such lovely stories. I didn't like any fairy stories that were disturbing or had baddies when I was little!

I loved the Elves and the Shoemakers too - the tiny clothes and shoes . Rumpelstiltskin for the room full of straw/gold and Rapunzel for the imaginative use of hair.

YY to the Enormous Turnip :) I have the cutest picture of dd as a toddler with my old copy open on her lap clutching a (rather more normal sized) turnip.

My other favourite was the Magic Porridge Pot, I must have been a rather food focussed child

I've only just seen this thread! I know I'm a bit late, but I'll join in, if that's OK.

My favourite was The Princess and the Nightingale. Absolutely lovely story about love, loss and letting go. Very nice way for a child to learn about allowing others to be themselves, such an important lesson.

The Little Match Girl. I wept and wept.

I do love the Magic Porridge Pot, I had a lovely Ladybird edition.

There is a Brothers Grimm one about a princess whose 7 brothers turn into swans at night and she had to knit them clothes out of nettles to reverse the spell. I loved that. Sounds completely mad, but it’s a real fairy tale.

Also Rapunzle.

I remember I had a beautiful book of fairy tales, the most beautiful illustrations. It had The Little Mermaid - but it was very dark 'every step she took was like walking on sharpened blades' and her voice! she lost her beautiful voice.
I used to read it and cry, wanting the end to be different. Wanting her to go back into the sea, with her sisters, have her voice back.
I think I must of always been a LTB gal at heart!

I had a book called The Arabian Nights about Sherazade and some of the stories she told.
Grimm's fairy tales(the palatable versions but not sugar coated like today)
I also liked Aesop's fables

The Little Mermaid
The Snow Queen

I had a massive 'Brothers Grimm' book with all (most?) of the stories in- @AmazingGreats I remember it having those versions too, I wonder if your even allowed to read those to children anymore!? I loved them- they were scary, but magically so I thought.
Mind you, I started reading James Herbert/Clive Barker/Stephen King books when I was about 11- it was quite a jump from 'Judy Blume' , a step too far with 'Weaveworld' that gave me nightmares!
Julia Donaldson books for my Dd's atm- although Dd1 loves an audio version of Rapunzel, the one where she eats the Witches lettuces-