Review: Gathered From the Web
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 3, 2014
This book is selling what has been offered for free on the web by two fairy tale websites for over 16 years.  And those that are not are under copyright. There are no translations of Italo Calvino's tales, for example, that are out of copyright and free for use in a book like this.Of the tales that are out of copyright, most of the tales and most if not all of the illustrations included here are offered for free on my own site, SurLaLune Fairy Tales and D. L. Ashliman's site, as alternative versions of Little Red Riding Hood. They are out of copyright and free game, but this book essentially took all of the work of gathering and introducing from two well-known and respected sites and packaged it here--rather poorly--for personal profit. I call foul!There are other more comprehensive and helpful compilations--with lots more tales, too!--available that don't try to profit off the hard work of authorities who have shared these tales for free to all readers on the web for years and years. Why pay for it when it is free on the web anyway? For better collections, I recommend The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood edited by Jack Zipes and Revisioning Red Riding Hood around the World: An Anthology of International Retellings edited by Sandra L. Beckett.