Word: tatar
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...Instead, Tatar describes her experience on “entry through images.” Fascinated by the pictures, she would figure out which ones corresponded to which stories and then go to the library to look them...
...book was not read to pieces, it was looked to pieces,” Tatar explains. It’s written in German, and when she first owned it as a child, she couldn’t read the language...
...Tatar wants her readers to remember that “the versions of the Grimms aren’t necessarily our versions.” People’s eyes are gouged out. Parents attempt to eat their children. Cinderella’s stepsisters cut off their toes and heels to fit into the glass slipper...
...Tatar says that parents have the right to decide what aspects of the stories are appropriate. “If you don’t want to read your children about the bloody heel, don’t do it!” she insists, and suggests they can get to it when they’re older...
...fact through the Brothers Grimm that Tatar first became interested in the study of fairy tales. In her office she has a volume of their stories barely kept together with rubber bands and duct tape...