Giveaway - The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales

Here's a great giveaway today for you, courtesy of Penguin Classics - The Turnip Princess and Other Newly Discovered Fairy Tales by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth, edited by Erika Eichenseer, who discovered the tales, translated by Maria Tatar, a Harvard folklore scholar and illustrated by Engelbert Suss.

From the publisher:

"With THE TURNIP PRINCESS, the holy trinity of fairy tales—the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen—becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining the admiration of even the Brothers Grimm. Most of Schönwerth’s work was lost—until a few years ago, when Erika Eichenseer uncovered thirty boxes of manuscripts in a German municipal archive.

Now, for the first time, Schönwerth’s lost fairy tales are available in English. Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, they bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre."

Violent, dark, and full of action, and upending the relationship between damsels in distress and their dragon-slaying heroes, Schönwerth’s fairy tales as collected in THE TURNIP PRINCESS bring us closer than ever to the unadorned oral tradition in which fairy tales are rooted, revolutionizing our understanding of a hallowed genre."

Fairy tale fans, simply leave a comment with the name of your favorite fairy tale to be entered. Open to US only, no PO boxes please. Ends March 7/15.