This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different traditions also make their appearance, including The Three Bears and Little Red Hiding Hood.
Other Fairy Tales include:
St George of Merrie England
Tom-Tit-Tot
The Golden Snuff-Box
Tattercoats
The Three Feathers
Lazy Jack
The Three Sillies
The Golden Ball
The Two Sisters
The Laidly Worm
Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse
The Black Bull of Norroway
Catskin
Nix Naught Nothing
Mr and Mrs Vinegar
The True History of Sir Thomas Thumb
Henny-Penny
The Three Heads of the Well
Mr Fox
The Old Woman and Her Pig
The Wee Bannock
How Jack Went Out to Seek His Fortune
The Bogey-Beast
Childe Rowland
The Wise Men of Gotham
Caporushes
The Red Ettin
The Fish and the Ring
Lawkamercyme
Master of All Masters
Molly Whuppie and the Double-Faced Giant
The Ass, the Table and the Stick
The Well of the World’s End
The Rose Tree
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