The Fairy tale treasury / selected by Virginia Haviland ; illustrated by Raymond Briggs
1984, Reprint. Harmondsworth : Puffin Books in association with Hamish Hamilton. Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #412110
ISBN: 0140501037
Physical description; 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm. Notes; Contains 32 fairy tales. Authors include Aesop, Perrault and Andersen. Originally published by Hamish Hamilton in 1972, published in Picture Puffin 1974, reprinted 1984. Contents; The gingerbread boy -- Henny-Penny -- The wolf and the seven little kids -- The story of the three little pigs -- The old woman and her pig -- The little red hen and the grain of wheat -- The story of the three bears -- The turnip -- Gone is gone -- The three billy-goats-gruff -- The golden goose -- The half-chick -- The history of Tom Thumb -- Jack and the beanstalk -- From tiger to Anansi -- Budulinek -- The sun and the wind -- The miller, his son, and their donkey -- Wakaima and the clay man -- The Bremen Town musicians -- The frog prince -- The elves and the shoemaker -- Puss in boots -- Snow-white -- Cinderella -- Little Red Riding-Hood -- Molly Whuppie -- Rumpelstiltskin -- One-Inch Fellow -- The real princess -- The emperor's new clothes -- The ugly duckling. Subjects; Briggs, Raymond. Haviland, Virginia 1911-1988. Children's stories. Fairy tales. Folklore. Children's stories in English, 1900- Texts. Cildren's Fiction in English. Aesop. Andersen, Hans Christian 1805-1875. Perrault, Charles 1628-1703.
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