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Despite the variety of creatures known as The Fae, they’re characterized by a few consistent traits. Although authorship and translation of the books is usually attributed to Andrew alone, his wife Leonora “Nora” Blanche Alleyne was largely responsible for the selecting and translating the stories, as acknowledged by Andrew in his preface to The Lilac Fairy Book (1910), where he notes “The fairy books have been almost wholly the work of Mrs. Featuring extraordinary illustrations by Clive Hicks-Jenkins and an exclusive introduction by Janina Ramirez, each of the 750 numbered copies has been signed by both contributors. Featuring a fascinating introduction by Val McDermid and new illustrations by Juan Esteban Rodríguez, each copy has been signed by both the introducer and the illustrator. This fine drawing illustrates Andersen's story of "The Real Princess" and is dated only a year before Briggs published Father Christmas, which launched his distinctive comic-strip style of illustration.
Celebrating the inner fire of everyday kids, in Dragon Girls Azmina, Willa and Naomi are summoned to the Magic Forest by its ruler, the Tree Queen, to find out that they have dragon-selves with unbelievable abilities. Strange things are happening to the stars at Camp Stargaze, and without Zara the Starlight Fairy's bag of star dust, the. I had always hoped to get my children into the Enid Blyton books that I read as a child, but I have given up on that as a lost cause, at least for the time being!
First editions, first impressions, a complete set of Lang's beautifully produced Fairy Book series, which is uncommon complete in collectible condition.
A contemporary review in The Bookman notes, "here we see some of [Rackham's] most delightful and characteristic work - wizened old women, gnarled old trees which assume all manner of grotesque expressions, quaint, vivacious mice, beetles, etc.In this new addition to the `Choose Your Own magic` strand, the reader decides the direction the story takes! The 12 books in the series were originally illustrated by Henry Justice Ford, with credit for the first two volumes shared by G.
Includes: The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership; The Six Swans; The Dragon of the North; Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes; The Golden Crab; The Iron Stove; The Dragon and his Grandmother; The Donkey Cabbage; The Little Green Frog; The Seven-headed Serpent; The Grateful Beasts; The Giants and the Herd-boy; The Invisible Prince; The Crow; How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World; The Wizard King; The Nixy; The Glass Mountain; Alphege, or the Green Monkey; Fairer-than-a-Fairy; The Three Brothers; The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise; The Glass Axe; The Dead Wife; In the Land of Souls; The White Duck; The Witch and Her Servants; The Magic Ring; The Flower Queen’s Daughter; The Flying Ship; The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son; The Story of King Frost; The Death of the Sun-hero; The Witch; The Hazel-nut Child; The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus; Prince Ring; The Swineherd; How to tell a True Princess; The Blue Mountains; The Tinder-box; The Witch in the Stone Boat; Thumbelina; The Nightingale; Hermod and Hadvor; The Steadfast Tin-soldier; Blockhead Hans; A Story about a Darning-needle. They discover the magic in the place and are given the task of finding the seven rainbow fairies (one for each colour of the rainbow) who Jack Frost has managed to lock out of fairyland, thus turning fairyland black and white. Now hope rests in the hands of an outcast half-Fey girl named Effie who, over the course of investigating some mysterious happenings in her coastal Scottish village, discovers she has abilities beyond imagining.Originally I had not realised they were a set that were dependant on each other, and just bought the red fairy book on its own. In 1968 she was awarded the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and named commended runner-up for the Carnegie Medal for The Whispering Mountain, a prequel to the James III series.
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