I really enjoyed this reading section. I have always liked reading fairy tales, especially if they were written by the Brothers Grimm. My favorite story from the first half of this section was the story of the The Frog Prince.
In "The Frog Prince," a young princess is introduced. One day she was playing near a spring of water with her favorite golden ball. She threw the golden ball a little to high and it rolled down into the spring. The spring was too deep for her to go into and retrieve the ball. A frog approached her and offered his help to her on one condition that she takes him back with her to her home. She accepts his offers and promises to take him back with her. The frog retrieves the golden ball for and gives it back to the princess. At first the princess denies her promise to the frog but eventually gives in and allows him to enter her home. For three days the frog ate her food and slept beside her on her bed. On the third day the frog turned into a prince. He was cursed by fairy and turned into a frog. The only way for her to turn back was by eating off the place off a princess and sleeping beside a princess for three days.
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I also really enjoyed the story of Rapunzel. It was a little different form the Disney version. The difference between the two was that in the Brothers Grimm the prince was blinded and in the Disney version he was not. He fell from Rapunzel's tower into a bed of thorns and some of the thorns pierced him eyes, causing him to go blind. Fortunately in the end, Rapunzel was able to cure his blindness.
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