Friday 56: Classic Fairy Tales

Visit our host for The Friday 56,  Freda's Voice.  After your visit, maybe I'll see you again back here. Congratulations Freda!

Rules:
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56.
*Find any sentence that grabs you.
*Post it.
*Link it here.

I grew up hearing "Once upon a time"... How about you? I loved hearing a good story end with, "And they all lived happily ever after." Oh the joy of folklore, fantasy and fairy tale. Awh yes, let's pretend and imagine, shall we?

 Here is my Friday 56:

"Gretel ran straight to Hansel , opened the door  to the little shed, and shouted: "Hansel we're saved! The old witch is dead."

-- The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar

Product Details

• Hardcover: 445 pages
• Publisher: WW Norton; annotated edition edition (Oct 29 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393051633
• ISBN-13: 978-0393051636

First Sentence

For many of us childhood books are sacred objects.
The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales
 
Best,
-- LadyD 

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