BLUEBEARD - ANGELA CARTER

I picked this book up in Prologue while I was there to use my voucher - finally - given to me by my JC form teacher for my 18th birthday. (Yes he's a really nice teacher, he used to give us all chocolates on our 17th birthday, and prologue/ popular vouchers on our 18th birthday. It isn't much, but it's the thought that counts, right!)

And why I say "finally" is because popular/ prologue isn't where I usually go to find and buy books. More often than not, I'm unable to find what I'm looking for! So in the end I decided on this book, along with The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan, which I am currently reading and loving every part of it.

Basically this book is short collection of fairy tales; Bluebeard, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood, Cinderella, Ricky with the Tuft, and The Foolish Wishes, rewritten by Angela Carter. And at the end of every fairy tale comes a moral or two. Mostly 2 in most stories.

An extract from one of the morals, printed beautifully on the first page.

A very light-hearted book, easy to read as it is written in the most simplistic manner. If you are familiar with these fairy tales since young, these stories, in it's skeletal form, will not come across as any surprise at all.

What I liked best was the writing of the morals. Fairy tales date back to the 1600s, but these morals apply very much to the modern era as well.