Books like Little Red Riding Hood

So I was lucky enough to find a couple more of the Everymans Childrens Classics and so set about reading them.Now this is an intriguing book in that I am sure I have read these (or at least most of them) in other forms from other authors before. It turns out that they represent classic tales which have been around for a very long time (in some cases hundreds of years) and as such have had numerous tellings (and re-tellings). As such there often arises several versions of the same story or at least the same general story. The is the case for example of the story of Cinderella which is one of the tales in this book. Now I find these sorts of books fun to read as you can start to see where the modern versions of the tales arise from and what has been taken from this version and what has been taken from that. So apart from learning about the classic tales I also get to see the history of these stories and where they all came from. Its fascinating to see how some stories and elements of them you thought you knew actually are of something completely different.