THERE lies before me, as I write, a quaint old book; from this little book-torn and soiled, its edges all gone-nearly all the stories in this volume are drawn.
INFANCY & YOUTH:Santa Claus, as a baby, is found in the Forest of Burzee by Ak, the Master Woodsman of the World (a supreme immortal), and placed in the care of the lioness Shiegra; but thereupon adopted by the Wood Nymph, Necile.
An earthenware porringer, bought by a little Flemish girl of Bruges as a gift for the Christ child and stolen by Robber Hans, finally brings much happiness to her and her grandmother, the lace maker.
THROWING HERSELF IN HER GRANDFATHER'S ARMS, SHE HELD HIM TIGHTShe climbed so fast that she could soon discover, first the tree-tops, then the roof, finally the hut.
Nueve cuentos que tienen como protagonistas a distintos animales: un abejorro que rescata a una abeja que cayó en una telaraña, un grillo que encuentra una estrella, un cangrejo que junta hojas para construir una torre.
In "Ein Feuerwerk für den Fuchs" entwickeln Pettersson und sein Kater Findus einen kreativen Plan, um einen Fuchs von ihren Hühnern fernzuhalten, ohne ihm zu schaden.
This book, like the others of this series, has only been rendered possible by the courtesy and complaisance of the various collectors from whom I have culled my treasures.
Old French Fairy Tales contains a group of fairy tales redolent of the charm of the seventeenth century, told with that delicacy so characteristic of the French.
Canadian Fairy Tales is a collection of 26 of Native American folk tales gathered from across Canada by Professor Cyrus MacMillan, who did not indicate the origin tribe of each story.
It's all very well-but you, and I, and most of us who are healthy in mind and blithe of spirit, love to give rein to our fun and fancy, and to mingle fun with our fancy and fancy with our fun.
ONCE UPON A TIMEThere was a Little Fairy who loved to wander by the river, and as the Fairy Queen does not like her subjects to go too near the water, the Little Fairy had to steal away.
