The Random House Book of Fairy Tales

I chose this book because it was just one big book of all the greatest fairy tales! Almost all of the stories in the book have been adapted into movies, mainly Disney movies.  I did not even know that several of the stories, like "Puss in Boots," were actual fairy tales instead of just solely Disney movies.  I really enjoyed looking over all the stories in the book as they were all a little different than other versions I had heard before.  Reading this book made me think a lot about how much traditional stories change as they are passed down and recorded by different people or through different genres.  I think it is always a great idea to look at various versions or genres of a story in the classroom and compare and contrast them. I would definitely use this book to do so in a classroom as well as use it as a great example of traditional literature.  There are illustrations that go along with each story that are rather old looking and nothing super special, but I think that adds to the "oldness" and history of the stories which works perfectly in this case!