Lily's Reviews > Tatterhood and Other Tales

More like 3.5 starts, to be honest. This was a pretty good book, I read it in one evening. It's a small collection of old fairy tales with a more feminist bent to them, and that part I really enjoyed. A couple of the tales were really bizarre, but most had good messages if you're into the whole "looking for a deeper meaning" thing or something that is a good teaching/learning opportunity with your children. There's also a section in the end that spells out some of those deeper meanings a bit, and at the end of each of the fairy tales themselves was a small paragraph explaining where that fairy tale came from and backstory or history needed. In the case of words likely unfamiliar to English readers (such as the tales that are written in Scots) they include a footnote explaining what it means. So while it's not the best collection of fairy tales I've ever seen, and not all the fairy tales are that great, I'd still recommend reading it just for the feminist aspect, especially if you are raising young girls.