Romanian Fairy Tales (English and Romanian Edition)

I bought this as a Christmas present for a dear friend of mine who lives in the U.S. but is from Romania. She had been having a difficult time this past year, and I thought this would be a great treat to take her back to lovelier, simpler times in her life filled with magic and wonder. She cried when she received this gift because she thought it was so thoughtful. On the left page, it is written in English and on the right page, it is written in Romanian. There are beautiful, simple drawings throughout, and my friend even said she wanted to get out her Crayolas and color as she read. If that does not make you want to buy this book...

I bought this for my sponsored romanian child. She is only 3 so her mother can read them, but I believ books to be the most percious thing I can give her. If you open ti up the right side will be english and the left side romanian of the same thing so she can use it for an english primer as she gets older, as well. Well made, cute stories and I know she will love it.

The English translation is very poor quality. It's not that word choices were off. Entire sentences are left out or totally incorrect words are used. This book is OK for anyone just interested in reading about fairy tales from the region, but it's not useful for language learners.

There are very few English translations of Romanian fairy tales ( at least I can't seem to find them on amazon).It is a pity, there are some beautiful, fantastic and unique stories kids are missing on.This one was the only folk stories version that I could find that was bilingual and illustrated.Illustrations by Diana Andriuca are sketchy black and white, they look like something a 6 year old would doThe English translation seems forced, heavy at times, might be too hard for younger kids( by the way there is no mention who the translator is.)It does try to stay close to the richness of the Romanian text.I gave it four stars just because it is a first, it's still great to get kids exposed to the wonderful Romanian folklore!It stands no comparison though with the Impudent Rooster amazingly illustrated by Holly Berry. Too bad that a Romanian illustrator can't make these exotic stories more appealing!

I chose this book because I love the fact that it is in both English and Romanian. Its hard to find books in these languages together. This book contains 3 stories which I loved! Its also a perfect book to study your Romanian as I am, by practicing your reading.

My granddaughter is 1/2 Romanian, and so I think her motherwas just as happy with the gift-if not more-as my granddaughter.This will give them a chance to be together with stories from herhome country and my granddaughter an opportunity to learnthe language.

Cute simple drawings that kids could even color. Every story is translated in english as well.

like the fact thats translated the stories but the translation is not exact. Also needs more pictures and colors.

Very nice

A lovely book perfectly laid out for anyone learning Romanian. You can see the story in both English and Romanian at the same time.

Romanian stories good and nice to have English translation but Oh the illustrations are so bad, as though done by a 12 yr old. If you like nice illustrations with your children's books you will hate these.

I wish the illustrations were in colour.

I really enjoyed this little book and will pass it on to my gran-daughter.