{"id":278,"date":"2009-10-19T20:38:10","date_gmt":"2009-10-20T00:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=278"},"modified":"2009-10-19T20:40:40","modified_gmt":"2009-10-20T00:40:40","slug":"the-guardian-goes-wild-over-fairy-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2009\/10\/19\/the-guardian-goes-wild-over-fairy-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian Goes Wild over Fairy Tales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-280\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2009\/10\/460x276Fairytales-300x180.jpg\" alt=\"460x276Fairytales\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2009\/10\/460x276Fairytales-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2009\/10\/460x276Fairytales.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2009\/oct\/13\/adult-content-warning-fairy-stories<\/p>\n<p>The Guardian is featuring fairy tales for an entire week, with &#8220;booklets of our best-loved fairy tales&#8221;), all of which can be read on the web.  The writers who selected the stories for publication provide a guide to each set of tales.  On October 10, for instance, Hilary Mantel wrote about &#8220;Wicked Parents in Fairytales.&#8221;  On October 12, A.S. Byatt offered an exquisite meditation on &#8220;Love in Fairytales.&#8221;    Philip Pullman, Alison Lurie, Marina Warner, Salman Rushdie, oh my!\u00a0 It doesn&#8217;t get better than that.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the promotional material:<\/p>\n<p><em>Starting this weekend in the Guardian and the Observer, Great fairytales brings you the finest stories of morality, justice, triumph and enchantment from around the world, collected in seven themes: Wicked parents, Rags to riches, Love, Quests and riddles, Wisdom and folly, Justice and punishment and Beastly tales.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The stories are all nominated by a panel of critics, writers and experts on children&#8217;s literature: Anthony Browne, AS Byatt, Abdulrazak Gurnah, Robert Irwin, Alison Lurie, Adam Phillips, Philip Pullman, Salman Rushdie and Marina Warner.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Each collection is beautifully illustrated and includes an afterword from a range of leading writers exploring each theme.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Begin on Saturday with Wicked Parents which features Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and The Tale of the Juniper Tree.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/booksblog\/2009\/oct\/13\/adult-content-warning-fairy-stories The Guardian is featuring fairy tales for an entire week, with &#8220;booklets of our best-loved fairy tales&#8221;), all of which can be read on the web. The writers who selected the stories for publication provide a guide to each set of tales. On October 10, for instance, Hilary Mantel wrote about &#8220;Wicked Parents in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26362],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brothers-grimm"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}