Reading Notes: English Fairy Tales, Part A

Cat and Mouse by Niels Hartvig

Oh my gosh, the first image that you scroll down to… I don’t know what to feel. The characters are written with distinguishable accents. She was embarrassed and made her daughter out to be someone else. The girl got married to a guy that was impressed by a quality she did not possess. Someone offered to help the damsel in distress. She had to guess the name of the someone/something that helped her. The name was Tom Tit Tot.

The intro was very descriptive. It was easy to imagine the girl. She had to sing a song over and over again.

The writing in this is very confusing to keep up with. Too many run on sentences. There were many animals involved. Rats, cats, dog, ox, and pig were mentioned.

A harp was made out of Binnorie. The harp sang, then it snapped and broke.

The cat and the mouse are talking with repetitive words. “The cat came and ate it, my lady, my lady. The cat came and ate it, my lady.”

The legendary three little pigs is always fun to read. This is definitely a class story many people know and have heard before. There is an ominous feeling for the last story, and I like it.


Bibliography: English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs