One of these copies is in the British Museum in London. PL Travers, author of the Mary Poppins series, remembers wanting to own a copy of the original translated book, but she felt she had to earn it. When she wrote her story about how much she wanted it, she began by explaining: "If you really want a thing, the fairy tales tell us, you are quite sure to get it." That is to say - and of course there is a catch - if you want it so much that you are willing to work for it, to pay the price with the necessary currency - love, courage, sacrifice, money. The publication of the new complete Grimm's Tales is a good example of this. I've wanted this book since the moment I was first able to read it. I searched high and wide. The selections never satisfied me, nor the truncated and delicate versions. I wanted it whole and complete, the thing in itself. Eventually, after a lot of research (and a lot of growing up in the process), I discovered it at the British Museum. Later, I read it again at the New York Public Library, making laborious notes on this insignificant little printout. Then one day, as I was walking up the steps to ask for it again, I realized that I had indeed gotten my wish and that I now deserved to have a copy. So I wrote an article in the air, to anyone it might concern, suggesting that the