Comments on: Donkey Skin http://www.writefairytales.com/blog/2009/08/donkey-skin/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:20:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Heather http://www.writefairytales.com/blog/2009/08/donkey-skin/comment-page-1/#comment-191 Heather Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:48:14 +0000 http://www.writefairytales.com/blog/?p=240#comment-191 Hmm... I just read the annotated version at the link above. I guess the version I read was pretty much the original, since it had the daughter being fully his and not adopted. I didn't even know there was an alternate, less "inappropriate" version out there. If you're gonna give it to them, give it to them straight! Don't water it down, I say. That's why I insisted on reading Bobbin the real version of "The Little Mermaid" before letting her watch the Disney movie version. Hmm… I just read the annotated version at the link above. I guess the version I read was pretty much the original, since it had the daughter being fully his and not adopted. I didn’t even know there was an alternate, less “inappropriate” version out there.

If you’re gonna give it to them, give it to them straight! Don’t water it down, I say. That’s why I insisted on reading Bobbin the real version of “The Little Mermaid” before letting her watch the Disney movie version.

]]> By: Heather http://www.writefairytales.com/blog/2009/08/donkey-skin/comment-page-1/#comment-190 Heather Tue, 01 Sep 2009 05:44:39 +0000 http://www.writefairytales.com/blog/?p=240#comment-190 One of my alltime favourite fairytales as a child, although even at that young age, I knew it was also sickly creepy and wrong. Maybe that's what intrigued me. I'm sure it was. That and wondering what she must have smelled like, hanging out in a real donkey skin all day. I still have the book that contains this story. It's sitting on Bobbin's shelf now. I think I'll wait until she's in first grade before I read her that one (if she starts reading before that on her own, then she deserves to read it ;-)). I have no problems with evil witches, death, blood, black magic, sword battles, or deer hunters. But I do think I will have a tough time explaining the whole incest thing at this age :-) One of my alltime favourite fairytales as a child, although even at that young age, I knew it was also sickly creepy and wrong. Maybe that’s what intrigued me. I’m sure it was. That and wondering what she must have smelled like, hanging out in a real donkey skin all day.

I still have the book that contains this story. It’s sitting on Bobbin’s shelf now. I think I’ll wait until she’s in first grade before I read her that one (if she starts reading before that on her own, then she deserves to read it ;-) ). I have no problems with evil witches, death, blood, black magic, sword battles, or deer hunters. But I do think I will have a tough time explaining the whole incest thing at this age :-)

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