SurLaLuner Wishlist 2015: L. Bradshaw

L. Bradshaw shared a wishlist with us as part of the December SurLaLune Giveaway: What Fairy Tale Things Are On Your Holiday Wish List?. I'm enjoying these so please keep sharing!

And on to L.B.'s list:

I'm going for a mix of fairy tale themed and FAIRY TALE ;)

1. A magical talking horse

(Heidi's comments: Probably not Falada, but that is what always comes to my mind first.)

2. A complete set of the Lang Fairy Books

   

   

   
(Heidi's comments: I remember how thrilled I was to complete my library of them several moons ago.)

3. A copy of Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange

Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange (Hardcover Classics) by Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator), Malcolm C. Lyons (Translator), Robert Irwin (Introduction)

4. A door that opens wherever I want (to London! to Narnia! to the 1800s)

(Heidi's comments: Then I start thinking about what the door would look like and I spend way to much time looking at door pictures...)

5. An original Arthur Rackham

(Heidi's thoughts: I'm not sure which I would pick since I love so many of his. But it's a grand impossibility to daydream about. Aschenputtel above would be a top contender for me.)

Can't wait to see what others are wishing for!!

December SurLaLune Giveaway: What Fairy Tale Things Are On Your Holiday Wish List?

It's December! Time to give away a few books! So what better way to solicit giveaway entries than to ask you what fairy tale related gift you want this year for whatever December holiday(s) you celebrate?

Share your fairy tale related wish list for this year either through a comment to this blog post or through an email to me. Each wish list item, up to five items, will count as a giveaway entry.

I'll make posts of your wishlists to share with other readers here since at least I am always curious and several others have asked me to share so they might find new treasures, too. Entries will be accepted through Thursday, December 31st so you can also come back and share what you may have received, too!

You will get one giveaway entry for each item you share.

I will draw random winners from the entries in early January and giveaway to three winners a SurLaLune Fairy Tales library title of their choice. There 10 titles to choose from and this way you won't have to win a title you may already own. And, no, list price doesn't matter. So choose one of the bigger books if that is what you want!

Fairy Tale Gifts 2012 Winner: Dark Faerie Queene

The holidays are mostly past and the new year has arrived. Time for me to finally announce the winner of the Fairy Tale Gifts giveaway. I decided to wait until now due since I didn't have email addresses for most of the entries. I wanted to let everyone return to somewhat normal routines so I can get a mailing address and mail out the book.

The winner of The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre by Jack Zipes is Dark Faerie Queene.

Please send me your mailing address privately to my SurLaLune email address so I can ship the book out to you!

And for the rest of you, thank you for sharing your lists. You reminded me of some of my wishes and I think everyone enjoyed reading the entries. You also helped me get through a very busy December and prepare for the new year.

A new giveaway will start next week. I am still hearing about a possible book giveaway and if that doesn't pan out, I will start the Cinderella Tales From Around the World Giveaway instead. It's time to start discussing that book!

Fairy Tale Gifts 2012: Jenna

Our next entry in the Fairy Tale Gifts 2012 Giveaway is from Jenna:

1.) The Annotated Brothers Grimm (The Bicentennial Edition) edited & translated by Maria Tatar. Though I have the previous edition, I can't resist also wanting this new one for the expanded content.

2.) The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (Calla Editions) illustrated by Harry Clarke. These Calla Editions look gorgeous!

3.) Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood by Maria Tatar. I think I side with Tatar over Bettelheim and have been wanting to read this one for a while.

4.) Italian Folktales by Italo Calvino. I am not familiar any Italian folktales and I must correct this. (From Heidi: I should do a series of posts on Italian folktales. This is a WONDERFUL book, but not necessarily the place to start with Italian folklore. And Calvino, like so many, rewrote tales, too. The tales in this collection are "hybrids" as discussed in the introduction. I'm not picky that way, it's all literary to me once it is written down. Then again, it could be a starting point if you want to start with well-written tales and then work backwards to Calvino's source materials. I'm going to stop now and avoid the temptation of deleting this gloss altogether. In the end, this book is highly recommended and sits on my shelf but I don't take it down nearly as often as others.)

5.) The Complete Fairy Tales (Penguin Classics) by George MacDonald. I had never heard of him until I stumbled upon his tale "The Light Princess," and now I must read the rest of his fairy tales!

(From Heidi: Two wishlists included George MacDonald collections. While all of his books are available for free reading online, I understand the desire for a paper copy. I'd like to recommend finding editions of MacDonald's most popular tales illustrated by Maurice Sendak, and others, such as The Golden Key (A Sunburst Book) and The Light Princess (Sunburst Book).