How slow is an ogre? How do you get rid of a dragon if it’s on your roof? Would you go off with a fly-by-night? And who was the funniest dog in the world? These are a few of the important questions that are answered in this book. Terry Jones’s fairy tales take readers to strange lands and fabulous kingdoms where they will find mystery and magic, sadness and silliness, and more adventures than they will know what to do with.
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"[A] wonderful book of tales." —Genesee Valley Parent
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Terry Jones is perhaps best known as a scriptwriter and member of the Monty Python team. His books for children have been enormously popular, including Bedtime Stories, Whitbread Book of the Year-shortlisted The Lady and the Squire, US Parents' Choice Award-winning Nicobobinus, and The Saga of Erik the Viking.
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This review is from: Fairy Tales and Fantastic Stories (Hardcover)
I was lucky enough to attend a screening where Terry Jones read these stories aloud to an audience, and adults laughed as much as the children. I've been looking for this book to buy to read my nieces and nephews ever since. Very silly, unpredictable stories that kids will want to hear again and again.
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Good stories, but some repeats,
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This review is from: Fairy Tales and Fantastic Stories (Hardcover)
This book is chockful of fun, wacky, and slightly twisted stories. One item to note, all the Terry Jones stories in the "Bedtime Stories" volume are included in this book. We have "Bedtime Stories" and love it -- my three year old especially loves looking at the great and plentiful illustrations while listening to the stories. "Fairy Tales and Fantastic Stories" has far fewer illustrations (only one or two per story), making it less interesting for younger ones. Still, it's a worthy purchase and one that we'll read for years to come.
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Fairy tales for a new audience of children,
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This review is from: Fairy Tales and Fantastic Stories (Hardcover)
I remember loving folk tales my grandmother told me, but the brothers Grimm are too morbid for what I would like to read to my children. These tales are thoughtful, sensitive and at times conversation starters with the kids. Mr. Jones has some tales that are not all Disney princess delirium and some that definately show a different side of humanity than we would like to concentrate on. My two girls are begining to expect more from a book than stickers and sweet stories and I am happy to read a good story from this book to my thinking children.
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A FARMER WAS CUTTING HIS CORN, when he thought he could hear someone crying far away. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bright blue apples, rainbow cat, improving mirror, old red handkerchief, magic clay, snow baby, breakfast stew, old galoshes, favourite doll, glass cupboard, magical song, dancing horse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Man Try-By-Night, Lord Chancellor, Prime Minister, Gatekeeper's Daughter, King Rupert, Royal Treasurer, King Yorick, Bill Stoker, Charlemagne the Cock, Tim O'Leary, Toby Tickler, King of the Fairies, Stan the Dog, King Herbert, Master of the House, Ship of Bones, Simple Peter, Father Of All Things, Queen Pavona, Monster Tree, Goblin City, Mother Of All Cats, Ship of Fools, Fairy One-Step, First Mate New!
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A FARMER WAS CUTTING HIS CORN, when he thought he could hear someone crying far away. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
bright blue apples, rainbow cat, improving mirror, old red handkerchief, magic clay, snow baby, breakfast stew, old galoshes, favourite doll, glass cupboard, magical song, dancing horse Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Old Man Try-By-Night, Lord Chancellor, Prime Minister, Gatekeeper's Daughter, King Rupert, Royal Treasurer, King Yorick, Bill Stoker, Charlemagne the Cock, Tim O'Leary, Toby Tickler, King of the Fairies, Stan the Dog, King Herbert, Master of the House, Ship of Bones, Simple Peter, Father Of All Things, Queen Pavona, Monster Tree, Goblin City, Mother Of All Cats, Ship of Fools, Fairy One-Step, First Mate New!
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- Terry Jones' Fairy Tales (Puffin Books) by Terry Jones in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Terry Jones Fantastic Stories by Terry Jones in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen in Back Matter
- Grimms' Fairy Tales (Collector's Library) by Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm in Back Matter
- Fairy Tales by H C Andersen in Back Matter
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- Bedtime Stories by Terry Jones in Back Matter
- Terry Jones's War on the War on Terror: Observations and Denunciations by a Founding Member of Monty Python (Nation Books) by Terry Jones in Front Matter
- Monty Python Speaks by David Morgan on page 300
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