tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14197028.post5346630183491395102..comments2023-10-22T11:08:45.369-05:00Comments on My Blue World: Sarah Nejdlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05034372526816109472noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14197028.post-70493471355910191652008-07-21T10:21:00.000-05:002008-07-21T10:21:00.000-05:00I noticed this too when I tried to buy some pictur...I noticed this too when I tried to buy some picture books with the fairytales for a program I was giving on the stories. Every book was those "fractured fairytales" type now. I see libraries aren't immune from the same issues infecting bookstores.<BR/><BR/>I finally photocopied the stories from the Annotated Grimm and the Annotated Anderson. This year, I will make sure I order them from Amazon in time to make my 2008 budget.<BR/><BR/>I think you simply have to tell Josh the stories, without the aid of a book. You know, the old-fashioned way, before kids had all these dangfangled books, with Josh on your lap and you just telling the story. Nobody really had books even in the nineteenth century except bibles, it's only in the twentieth century that books for kids finally became widespread.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com