Jan BRZECHWA - Samograjki Bajki samograjki (Self-play fairy tales)

In this, his best-known book - along with the volume One Hundred Fairy Tales and Mr. Kleks Academy - Jan Brzechwa presents his own interpretations of the most popular fairy tales from the canon of children's literature. The Samograjki fairy tales themselves are already classics. Each of today's adults remembers from childhood Little Red Riding Hood, who was not infrequently seen prowling in front of the hut, Puss in Boots, whom the king wanted to see immensely and asked: "Let the cat come near me," Cinderella, the step-daughter-orphan to whom the stepmother gave the worst job, and Hansel and Gretel, the woodcutter's children who found a gingerbread house in the woods and were so preoccupied with it that the witch let herself be taken as bait. Everyone can sing one of the songs sung in the masterful radio adaptation of Samograjek fairy tales by such great performers as Irena Kwiatkowska, Barbara Krafftówna, Mieczysław Czechowicz, Władysław Hańcza and Wiesław Michnikowski - the one about the two hares that aren't even afraid of lions, or about Cinderella's stepmother's beloved daughters, who would give up everything if only they would grow fat, or about the grove-holder wandering through forests and oaks.

And when we remember all this, we won't have the slightest doubt that Samograjki fairy tales should be read and sung to our children. Because Jan Brzechwa, I give you my word, created them anew for them. In Samograjki Bajki samograjach, Jan Brzechwa wrote four classic songs in verse: Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Cinderella and Hansel and Gretel. The songs are accompanied by musical notation.

Published by Czytelnik, Warsaw, 1986

Format: 160 x 235 mm, 186

Softcover

Very good condition