Barbara Hayes
Author of Folk Tales and Fables of the World
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Barbara Hayes worked on the editorial staff and spent many years writing stories and picture strip scripts for the Amalgamated Press, situated in Farringdon Street, which is round the corner from Fleet Street, London. Later Amalgamated Press became Fleetway Publications and subsequently part of the Daily Mirror IPC publishing group.
Barbara was just in time to work with some of the old Fleet Street hacks in all their drunken glory before the move away from Fleet Street to modern technical respectability.
She got advice straight from the lips of Hugh Cudlipp, the famous editor of the Daily Mirror, and became married to an Amalgamated Press editor, Leonard Matthews, who rose to be a managing editor and then an editorial director.
Over the years she has had some 80 books and about 7300 scripts published by companies from England to Australia to South Africa to Florida and back to Holland.
She likes to think of herself as an old hack writer who succeeded mainly because she always got her work in on time and the right length - but if you read on carefully you might find quite a few other hints to help you.
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(Included in the Grey Fairy Book)
This is one of these weird old fairy tales that hasn't aged quite so well, especially because of the incest angle. However, after reading this story I realized that the story of Princess Furball had to be inspired from this, with the incest part cut out.
I do feel bad for the donkey, and I know the princess had to watch out for herself, but it was still a shitty thing for her to be willing to do that to the poor animal.
In the Gray Fairy Book, the daughter is show more not the king's bio daughter, but his adopted daughter. Thank goodness Lang decided to make that edit. show less
This is one of these weird old fairy tales that hasn't aged quite so well, especially because of the incest angle. However, after reading this story I realized that the story of Princess Furball had to be inspired from this, with the incest part cut out.
I do feel bad for the donkey, and I know the princess had to watch out for herself, but it was still a shitty thing for her to be willing to do that to the poor animal.
In the Gray Fairy Book, the daughter is show more not the king's bio daughter, but his adopted daughter. Thank goodness Lang decided to make that edit. show less
Ten classic tales from the Middle East and Africa are handsomely illustrated in an oversize format that is used to strong effect by Ingpen, whose full-page paintings are meticulously detailed, warmly colored and strikingly composed. While Hayes plays it safe with her selections from the Middle East (David and Goliath, Aladdin), the stories from sub-Saharan Africa are rarer treasures: "The Horns of Plenty" are those of a bull that sacrifices itself for a motherless child; the courage of Zulu show more Princess "Untombinde" saves a handsome young man cursed with the body of a snake. While a few of the animal stories are lighthearted, most are serious and formal in tone. This quality is least effective in the final trickster tale that seems more mean spirited than clever. show less
This book holds many folk tales and fables from around the world but I did only Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp.
It concerns an impoverished young ne'er-do-well named Aladdin, in a Chinese city, who is recruited by a sorcerer from the Maghreb, who passes himself off as the brother of Aladdin's late father, convincing Aladdin and his mother of his goodwill by apparently making arrangements to set up the lad as a wealthy merchant.
I found this version of Aladdin was very different from Disneys, show more but still interesting. In this one, his mother is still alive and he knew his father. It has more of an interesting sense that Aladdin is more wild, reckless, calculating, clever and thoughtful than just lucky and clever as Disney potrays. show less
It concerns an impoverished young ne'er-do-well named Aladdin, in a Chinese city, who is recruited by a sorcerer from the Maghreb, who passes himself off as the brother of Aladdin's late father, convincing Aladdin and his mother of his goodwill by apparently making arrangements to set up the lad as a wealthy merchant.
I found this version of Aladdin was very different from Disneys, show more but still interesting. In this one, his mother is still alive and he knew his father. It has more of an interesting sense that Aladdin is more wild, reckless, calculating, clever and thoughtful than just lucky and clever as Disney potrays. show less
I don't know why Disney hasn't made an adaptation of this one yet. They can call it a catchy name like "Skinned" and maybe have the skinned donkey follow the girl around as a cute animal sidekick.
Overall, this is a typical fairytale with just a bit more incest than your normal one. All's good.
Overall, this is a typical fairytale with just a bit more incest than your normal one. All's good.
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