One of those copies is in the British Museum in London. PL Travers, author of the Mary Poppins series, recalls that she would have liked to own a copy of the original translated book, but felt she had to earn it. When he wrote his story about how much he wanted it, he began by explaining: “If you want something badly enough, fairy tales tell us, you are pretty certain you will get it. That is – and obviously there is a problem with this – if you want it enough that you are willing to work for it, to pay the cost with whatever coin is needed: love, courage, sacrifice, money. An emblematic example is the publication of the new complete edition of Grimm's Fairy Tales. I wanted that book from the moment I could first read it. I searched far and wide for it. The selections have never satisfied me, nor the expurgated and finicky versions. I wanted it whole and complete, just the thing itself. Finally, after much research (and much growth in the process), I discovered it at the British Museum. I later reread it in the New York Public Library, laboriously taking notes from the small, annoying print. Then one day, as I walked up the steps to request it again, it occurred to me that I had gotten my wish and now deserved a copy of my own. So I wrote an article on the air, to anyone who might care, suggesting that the