Dream days vs Tanglewood Tales: Which Should You Read?
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Dream days
Kenneth Grahame's unjustly neglected collections of vignettes, reminiscences, and inventions capture the ingenuities of a family of children--three boys and two girls--who live magnanimous lives nourished by the secret…
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Tanglewood Tales
Tanglewood Tales uses the Greek classics as its source. Nathaniel Hawthorne has taken the most striking and exciting ones and adapted them for children. From the original stories he has selected episodes that illustrate…
The verdict
- Ratings are close across the board — any is a safe pick by score.
- Dream days is the quickest read — about 2 hours vs 4 for Tanglewood Tales.
- Tanglewood Tales has the widest readership — 1964 ratings behind its score.
Scores by source
| Dream days | Tanglewood Tales | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 3.8 (343) | 3.8 (1964) |
| Hardcover | — | 3.2 (3) |
| Apple Books | — | 4.0 (28) |
Reception
| Dream days | Tanglewood Tales | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 343 | 1964 |
| Editions | 303 | 418 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | 1 |
| Want to read | 591 | 2890 |
| Reading it now | 56 | 361 |
| Written reviews | 55 | 171 |
| Wikipedia attention | 589 | 826 |
| Pages | 129 | 256 |