The Big Book Of Fairy Tales

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LIllKARY OF CHILliUEN'S FAVOUITES
THE BIG BOOK OF FAIRY TALES
WALTER JERROLD
IVM hIack-atiMile and 24 full-color illustrations
The Big Book of Fairy Tales contains 30 of the best known fairy tales from around the world. These stories - told and re-told in many versions - are familiar to everyone. Generations of children have been introduced to the wonderland of romance and fantasy through them; Fairy tales have their own place in the memories of childhood with their truth that transcends the facts ofhistory.
This collection of fairy tale favorites brings home to us the fact that the nursery knows no frontiers. The world is its country, and any author - from any region - is surely welcomed so long as he or she is a story teller. Included here are selected tales from The Arabian Nights', from the hunch-backed Greek slave Aesop, to whom it is believed we owe the many fables associated with his name; from the courtly Frenchman, Charles Per-rault; from the German Brothers... Tovább

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LIllKARY OF CHILliUEN'S FAVOUITES
THE BIG BOOK OF FAIRY TALES
WALTER JERROLD
IVM hIack-atiMile and 24 full-color illustrations
The Big Book of Fairy Tales contains 30 of the best known fairy tales from around the world. These stories - told and re-told in many versions - are familiar to everyone. Generations of children have been introduced to the wonderland of romance and fantasy through them; Fairy tales have their own place in the memories of childhood with their truth that transcends the facts ofhistory.
This collection of fairy tale favorites brings home to us the fact that the nursery knows no frontiers. The world is its country, and any author - from any region - is surely welcomed so long as he or she is a story teller. Included here are selected tales from The Arabian Nights', from the hunch-backed Greek slave Aesop, to whom it is believed we owe the many fables associated with his name; from the courtly Frenchman, Charles Per-rault; from the German Brothers Grimm; and from that dearest of childhood's friends, the Danish Hans Christian Andersen. Also found here arc stories from unknown authors -such well-known English classics as Jack the Giant-Killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, and Dick Whittington and His Cat. Some of these stories have been told in many ways, by different people in different countries, so that it is difficult to know precisely where they started. Cinderella, for example, has had her romance set forth in various ways in various lands: to English speakers she is Cinderella, in the French talcs of Monsieur Perrault she is Cendrillon, in the German tales of Grimm she is Ashputtel.
Aladdin and Sinbad come from that wonderful treasure-trove of tales. The Arabian Nights. From Hans Christian Andersen we get the story of The Ugly Duckling, and from the same tender-hearted teller of tales we have the romance of The Little Tin Soldier, and the sad story of the poor little
match-girl. And finally come the terrible Blue Beard and the dainty Beauty and the Beast from Monsieur Perrault, all of whose tales may be said to have become nursery favorites.
But whoever may have been the first teller of any of these wonderful, ageless stories, his work lives on, immortal as childhood, though his name may be forgotten.
Walter Jerrold collects here in The Big Book of Fairy Tales 30 of the world's favorite fairy tales from known and unknown authors alike. Complemented by the black and white drawings of Charles Robinson and the colorful illustrations of Jane Harvey, this collection is one that will be treasured by generations to come. Vissza