OK so If you have read the last Harry Potter book then the title of this post moslt likely looks familiar. If you haven't read the last Harry Potter book The Tales of Beedle The Bard are a collection of "wizard fairy tales". Supposedly these are the fairy tales wizard children grew up listing to and J.K. Rowling went and wrote all these fairly tales down so its now a real book. There are short fairy tale stories in it like The Wizard and the Hopping Pot, The Fountain of Fair Fortune, The Warlocks Hairy Heart, Babbitty Rabbity and Her Cackaling Stump and The Tale of The Tree Brothers. Now if your not a fan of Harry Potter, that's okay! You can still read these without a knowledge of the Harry Potter world and it's characters. What I love most is that each of the fairy tales has a moral that is separate from magic and most of them are how about magic can actually ruin your life. I thought the fairy tales were cute and well written and they could def become classics. My favorite was the Fountain of Fair Fortune because three witches travelled to this fountain thinking that the fountain would grant them their heart's desires but on the journey they find what they really were searching for. So in the end, magic was not needed and, you guessed it, they all lived happily ever after.
I thought it was really cute how Dumbledore would "explain" the "origins" of the story and about the wizard or witch who it was based on. It was a charming addition (don't I sound smartical) to an already lovely tale.
Even if you aren't a fan of Harry Potter, you simply must read this book! It was really, really good and I loved it. And so will you! I hope. -crosses fingers-
p.s. J.K. Rowling did all the illustrations in the book. Plus if you buy the book a certain amount of the money goes to a children's organization called Comic Relief
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I was wondering how that one went! I'll have to read this one. and zowie, but you are a fast reader.
ReplyDeleteUm.......darling you called it Beedle the Barb in your title.
ReplyDeleteAlso I think Comic Relief doesn't exist anymore... '~'
(feel free to delete this comment after you read it, as it is only about lame corrections)
I've got that one! I saw it in Walmart at Christmas and couldn't resist. It is really cool. I've also read this Quidditch one that she made a long time ago, and there's also the Monster's Book of Monsters or something like that they actually made too. It's all really interesting. Good pick!
ReplyDeleteOh meggy, always pointing out the mistakes. Don't look for imperfections, look past them cause if all you see is imperfections you're going to be looking at a whole lot of them. Ooooooooooh I should go into the fortune cookie buisiness! And yeah i think Comic Relief dosnt exsist. It was a diffrnt organization. I didn't take the time to check. My bad. :)
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