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Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
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Languages : en
Pages : 242

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This is meant to be the best collection attainable of that delight of all children, and of many grown people who retain the child-heart still-the old-fashioned, time-honoured classic Fairy-tale. It has been compiled from all sources-far-off and familiar; when familiar, the stories have been traced with care to their original form, which, if foreign, has been re-translated, condensed, and in any other needful way made suitable for modern British children. Perrault, Madame d'Aulnois, and Grimm have thus been laid under contribution. Where it was not possible to get at the original of a tale, its various versions have been collated, compared, and combined; and in some instances, where this still proved unsatisfactory, the whole story has been written afresh. The few real old English fairy tales, such as Jack the Giant-Killer, Tom Thumb, etc., whose authorship is lost in obscurity, but whose charming Saxon simplicity of style, and intense realism of narration, make for them an ever-green immortality-these have been left intact; for no later touch would improve them. All modern stories have been excluded. Of course, in fairy tales instruction is not expected-we find there only the rude moral of virtue rewarded and vice punished. But children will soon discover for themselves that in real life all beautiful people are not good, nor all ugly ones wicked; that every elder sister is not ungenerous, nor every stepmother cruel. The tender young heart is often reached as soon by the imagination as by the intellect: and without attempting any direct appeal to either reason or conscience, the Editor of this Collection has been especially careful that it should contain nothing which could really harm a child. She therefore trusts that, whatever its defects, this Fairy Book will not deserve a criticism, almost the sharpest that can be given to any work-"that it would have been better if the author had taken more pains.

Author: Dinah Craik
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473382858
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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The Fairy Book – The Best Popular Fairy Stories was originally published in 1913. It is a collection of classic children’s tales, compiled and edited by Dinah Craik, and illustrated by Warwick Goble. In the words of the author, it is intended as ‘the best collection attainable of that delight of all children, and of many grown people who retain the child-heart still – the old-fashioned, time-honoured classic Fairy Tale. It includes the narratives of ‘Sleeping Beauty’, ‘Cinderella’, ‘Beauty and the Beast’, ‘Tom Thumb’, ‘Rumpelstiltskin’, ‘Snow White’, ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and many more. Warwick Goble (1862 – 1943) was an illustrator of children’s books, who specialised in Japanese and Indian themes. The son of a commercial traveller, he was educated at the Westminster School of art, and specialised in chromolithographic printing. His work is delicate in its colouring, and masterful in its presentation of line and form. Some of Goble’s best known works include illustrations for Charles Kingsley’s The Water Babies, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island, and H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds. Pook Press celebrates the great ‘Golden Age of Illustration‘ in children’s literature – a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration from the 1880s to the 1930s. Our collection showcases classic fairy tales, children’s stories, and the work of some of the most celebrated artists, illustrators and authors.

Author: Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 396

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Author: Merlin Books
Publisher: Fairy Tales Books for Children
ISBN: 9781726833806
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 110

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This is the fourth book in the series The Best Books Of Fairy Tales. Originally published in in the early 20th century, this book contains a selection stories from the American traditions.

Author: Merlin Books
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN: 9781731000477
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Languages : en
Pages : 108

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ILLUSTRATED EDITION It is to Perrault that we owe our acquaintance with the greater number of good old-fashioned fairy-tales, but an edition of these, although it includes such intimate friends of our childhood as Blue Beard, the Sleeping Beauty, and Little Red Riding-Hood, is hardly complete without "Beauty and the Beast"; a version of this tale, by Mme. Le Prince de Beaumont, has, therefore, been added to this collection. It has also been increased, space permitting it, by the insertion of two tales by Mme. la Comtesse d'Aulnoy; her writings, of a less robust class than those of Perrault, possess in their atmosphere of hidden magic, the charm which resides in that special feature of fairyland, and the addition of "The Benevolent Frog" and "Princess Rosette" will not, we think, be unwelcome to the youthful reader. CONTENT THE SLEEPING BEAUTY IN THE WOOD LITTLE RED RIDING-HOOD BLUE BEARD MASTER CAT; OR, PUSS IN BOOTS THE FAIRIES CINDERELLA; OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER RIQUET WITH THE TUFT LITTLE THUMBLING BEAUTY AND THE BEAST THE BENEVOLENT FROG PRINCESS ROSETTE

Author: BPI
Publisher: BPI Publishing
ISBN: 9351214672
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 89

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Best of Fairy Tales is a rich collection of stories of fairies, princes, princesses, witches, elves, magicians and dwarfs. Children will love to read these stories that have been illustrated with beautiful pictures. They will be transported to a fantasy land and will be surprised to see a beast that transforms into a handsome prince, a house that is made of chocolates and cakes, and a wooden doll that starts talking

Author: Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Publisher: Pook Press
ISBN: 9781447449027
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Languages : en
Pages : 456

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Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature. Many of the earliest children's books, particularly those dating back to the 1850s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pook Press are working to republish these classic works in affordable, high quality, colour editions, using the original text and artwork so these works can delight another generation of children.

Author: Martin Mayhew
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ISBN: 9780340177563
Category : Children's stories
Languages : en
Pages : 63

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Author: Pauline Rush Evans
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Category : Fairy tales
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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