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summer
Unregistered User
(9/23/01 11:26:57 am)
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Help me please, about the pied piper...
Hi ,
I'm looking for an interesting version of the pied piper, but I can't find anything.
any idea? I already looked in many web sites but nothing there.
thanks, summer.
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janeyolen
Unregistered User
(9/23/01 12:51:39 pm)
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Books
Have you tried your local library? The children's room will surely have a number of book versions. Harcourt (I think) published one a couple of years ago. I have a satirical story based on the Pied Piper story, but with frogs instead, in an anthology that Philomel just published, called RIBBETING TALES edited by Nancy Springer.
Jane
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Kate
Unregistered User
(9/23/01 2:36:45 pm)
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Browning
The version I cherish most (not least because it's the first I encountered, but also for other perfections!) is Robert Browning's poem, which you can find in several illustrated books of the title The Pied Piper of Hamelin.
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Laura
McCaffrey
Registered User
(9/24/01 6:14:47 pm)
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Mayer's Piper
Coincidentally, I was just reading Mercer Mayer's retelling of the Pied Piper this morning. I don't believe I'd ever actually read it before, just known about the tale in a general sort of way. I was quite fascinated.
Jane - I definately will search out your retelling. I'd love to see what you did with it. Laura Mc
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Helen
Registered User
(9/25/01 5:24:05 am)
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Tales From the Sisters Grimmer
Tanith Lee had a lovely, serious version with religious overtones (rats as totemic deities of the grain, the piper as a latter day god, dying for lack of worshippers) told from the point of view of one of the children left behind in her collection of stories _Red as Blood: Tales from the Sisters Grimmer_.
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summer
Unregistered User
(9/25/01 11:46:25 am)
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And another thing...
I'm also looking for articles or any other written material about the deferent ways there are to examine the fairy tails in general, and The pied piper specifically.
I already looked at Bettelheim's The uses of enchantment, and zipes, but nothing there about the pied piper.
I really need some help here...
Thank you .
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Kamui
Unregistered User
(9/25/01 1:27:01 pm)
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Re: study
I'm studying fairy tales in general as well, and while I've just started and don't know for sure: does Luhti have anything in his book on the Pied Piper?
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summer
Unregistered User
(9/29/01 9:36:54 am)
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Luhti???
Kamui
I'm not familyer with Luhti , can you tell me more please?
Summer
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Kamui
Unregistered User
(9/29/01 12:23:36 pm)
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Re: Luhti
Max Luhti. He did a book from which I only read the first chapter for one of my classes, although I suspect the whole book is probably pretty good. It's called: "Once Upon a Time: On the Nature of Fairy Tales." Not a recent text, but the first chapter examined Sleeping Beauty and Giambattista's "Sun, Moon and Talia." I don't know what the other chapters may cover, but there may be something about the Pied Piper in there somewhere.
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summer
Unregistered User
(9/30/01 1:20:07 am)
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Thank you
I'm going to look for the book,
thanks again...
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