I have a confession. I’ve never read all of Grimms’ Fairy tales. There are 211 of them (give or take…some editing went on between the different volumes.)
Have you read the complete collection of Grimms’ Fairy Tales? If not, (or, if you want to read them again) join me in reading four a week this year. Note the math 4 x 52 = 208, so we’ll add a fifth during the final three weeks. We’ll test the pace during the month of January and adjust if need be.
Why only 4 a week?
Because I also want to allow time to respond to the fairy tales in some creative way. Writing my own short fairy-tale retelling, trying my hand at illustration, creating an aesthetic for Instagram. Commentary. Something in response to one or more of the short stories.
Ways to participate:
1. Read along.
2. Join the weekly discussion on the Fairy-tale Forum group in Facebook.
3. Create something.
4. Share your creation at our weekly Saturday Linky party. (See below to add your intentions post.)
5. *new* I’ve created a group board on Pinterest. Let me know if you want to be added to it (#GRIMMread2019)
Schedule for January
I’m using the reading order from Wikipedia as that is easily accessible and based on the original Grimm volumes. My printed version from Barnes & Noble uses a different order, so I’ll have to hunt around for each week’s stories.
Volume 1
Jan 1-5
1: The Frog King, or Iron Heinrich
2: Cat and Mouse in Partnership
3: Mary’s Child
4: The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
Jan 6-12
5: The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
6: Faithful John or Trusty John
7: The Good Bargain
8: The Wonderful Musician or The Strange Musician
Jan 13-19
9: The Twelve Brothers
10: The Pack of Ragamuffins
11: Little Brother and Little Sister
12: Rapunzel
Jan 20-26
13: The Three Little Men in the Woods
14: The Three Spinning Women
15: Hansel and Grethel
16: The Three Snake-Leaves
Are you ready for the challenge?
- Link up! Let us all know by adding your blog (or pinterest board, or Instagram page…I think those can all be linked, but blogs work best) to the linky list below and tell us how you plan to participate. This initial sign-up / intentions link up will be open until Friday, January 4th.
- Copy the linky code and add it your blog so others can see who to visit next once they click away from this host page. Include the linky button (image below)
- Come back to ShonnaSlayton.com/blog every Saturday to add your specific new post to the blog linky party. If you miss a week, no big deal…just add your link at the next Saturday party.
- Use the #GrimmRead2019 hashtag when you share on social media.
- Help spread the word! Let’s give fairy tales a boost in 2019.
Sorry. The first linky needs to be deleted listed as Dominique Marie. The linky after that seems to work, but the thumbnail image isn’t showing up.
Deleted…not sure why the thumbnail isn’t showing up. It’s not in the backend material that I can see either…
I just requested a copy of The Original Folk and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm The Complete First Edition by Jacob Grimm; Wilhelm Grimm; JACK ZIPES; ANDREA DEZSÖ Princeton; Oxford Princeton University Press 2014 from my library.
Can’t wait to participate in this!
Yay!!!
By the way, I don’t know what a “linky party” and how I should take action to participate in it. Please instruct me so I can show up on Saturday! Many thanks.
A linky party is the name of a blog hop using this linky system. (An example is on this post.) If you do a blog post based on the weekly challenge, you can add a link to Saturday’s round up post (best to link directly to the post page, not your general blog page) so that other bloggers can stop by and see what you did this week. I think it also works to link up to other sites like pinterest and instagram. (Not an expert; this is kind of an experiment! We’ll all muddle through together until we figure it out.)
Added myself. Just in case anyone wants a free version, Project Gutenburg is the place to look.
Here’s the exact website for Grimm’s Fairytales hosted there:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2591
Thanks for that link!
Shonna, if you will email me your postal address, it would be my pleasure to send you my extra copy of the Jack Zipes translation of all the tales “The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm”, which includes all the tales in the order we’re reading them.
Zipes is one of the top scholars writing in English & German on the Grimms [others include Marina Warner (writing in English), Yvonne Verdier (French), and Ruth Bottigheimer (English)]. It’s a great translation.
Wow, thanks! Send me your email through my contact page 🙂
I am working on my post for today’s Linky hop, which is inspired by your question about Mary’s Child, but I see above a note that the Linky list is closed. Did I miss the window? I might need instructions later. I’ll send this note through the contact page as well.
This linky is closed, but the next one is still open for five days. There’ll be a fresh blog hop each week: http://shonnaslayton.com/grimmread2019-fairy-tale-retelling-source-material/
Just realized that Sur La Lune (that amazing blog about fairytales) features The Frog King or Iron Henry (http://surlalunefairytales.com/frogking/index.html), with annotations. I plan to read it and perhaps post more about this tale.
I checked; they don’t have any material pertaining to our next four stories.
Thank you,
Marigny