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    The Golden Goose

    By The Brothers Grimm

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    In The Golden Goose Dummling, the youngest and simplest of three brothers, is sent into the forest to chop wood. He shares his food and drink with a little gray man who directs him to a tree which, when chopped down, is found to contain a golden goose. Dummling sets off on a journey with the goose under his arm, eventually arriving in a kingdom wherein the king will offer his daughter's hand in marriage to any man who can make her laugh. This fairy tale, which features many common folk idioms (Least of Three, Princess Prize, The Fairy Gift) has numerous versions (The Princess Who Never Smiled, Peruonto) in other languages and cultures.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDreamscape Media
    Release dateOct 17, 2017
    ISBN9781974995738
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    The Brothers Grimm

    Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born during the 1780s in Hanau, Germany, and studied law at Marburg university. After leaving education, they worked as diplomats and librarians in Kassel. In 1837 they were dismissed from their professorships at the University of Göttingen for refusing to swear allegiance to the new King of Hanover, but were later invited to join the Academy in Berlin, by Frederick William IV of Prussia, where they remained for the rest of their lives. Individually, and as a collaborative team, the brothers were two of the greatest scholars that Germany has produced. Aside from their folktales, they produced many different volumes of research, as well as anthologies of verse and song, and two of Germany's most important linguistic texts, the Deutsche Grammatik (German grammar) and the Deutsche Wörterbuch (German dictionary). Wilhelm died in 1859, at the age of 73, and Jacob died in 1863, at the age of 78.

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    • 3/5
      This average guy (simpleton) wins the love of a princess through a strange series of events all stemming though the discovery of a golden goose. Happy endings are always nice.
    • 4/5
      When a boy does a kind, good deed, he is granted with luck from an old man in the woods. He is given a golden goose. When people around the boy wish to take from the goose a golden feather, they become stuck to the goose and have to follow it and the boy where ever they go. The goose brings much luck to the boy because he eventually has a parade of people following him down to a palace where the king declared that anyone who made his too serious daughter laugh, he could marry her. Well, the boy made the daughter laugh and the king wanted a ship that sailed on both land and water in return for his daughter's marriage. The boy went back to the old man in the woods, and he granted him with this ship because of the boy's kindness before. The boy married the princess and lived happily ever after and so did the goose. This story will help children learn that only good can come from beings nice and kind to other people around you. Read this story to your child, and bring them along this funny and joyful journey that will teach them the benefits of treating others the way you would like to be treated.
    • 1/5
      This is a retelling of the Grimm Fairy tale the Golden Goose. This is a big no, no story. The art is poorly done and the story was retold poorly. I would not use this book to clean up a spill off the floor, that is how bad it is.
    • 2/5
      The Golden Goose is about a young boy who goes into the woods and discovers a golden goose. He digs the golden goose up and brings it home. Everybody says that it is worth a lot and everybody is trying to steal it from him. The young boy marries the princess and they Golden Goose marries as well and has golden eggs and they all live happily ever after with one another.
    • 5/5
      such good tales!!
    • 3/5
      I find it a bit demoralizing to go back to the Brothers Grimm, such a part of my childhood and collectively our very concept of childhood, and not be able to get over the fact that it's all bloody death and princesses, sorry "kings' daughters," waiting to be plucked, but what can I say, that's how I feel. My kid is a sensitive guy and when my mum read him "Peter and the Wolf" he was like "the wolf only ate the bird because he thought it was food" and when I read him this he didn't react really but while he'll have to come to terms with the fact of death and of nature red in tooth and claw, I feel like golden goose–type stories less give you the facts than convey a morality (plucky lad is plucky, gets girl) and that might be harder to sort out somehow. My niece's generation are all inventing new genders at this point so I suppose it'll take care of itself, but I reluctantly concede that a lot of things I loved growing up I just can't see passing on to my own child (cf. also the Just So Stories, which we started recently and which still have their charms but there was just one too many nigger joke for me. Let him read and appreciate as an older boy who can separate the threads, or study it as a grownup if he makes the same mistakes as his dad and becomes an English student.)