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.
Ten minutes later a passing taxi was hailed by a shivering gentleman carrying an iron pot full of pennies and nickels and an occasional quarter in one hand, and a turkey-red coat, trimmed with white cotton cloth, thrown over his arm.
Perhaps best described as Charles Dickens's other' Christmas story, "e;A Christmas Tree"e; is an elderly narrator's reminiscence of holidays past, each incident inspired by the gifts and toys that decorate the traditional tree.
It was in October that Mary Chavah burned over the grass of her lawn, and the flame ran free across the place where in Spring her wild flower bed was made.
Jazbury came scampering gaily up the stairs to where his mother and Aunt Tabby were sitting on the window-sill washing their faces and cleaning their fur.
Swedish fairy-tales represents a careful choice, after the best original sources, of those examples of their kind which not only appeared most colorful and entertaining, but also most racially Swedish in their flavor.
I have gone right into the heart of "e;Holy Russia,"e; to Kiev and Novgorod and the borders of the Caspian, in an endeavour to show by means of some of the early legends the ideals and point of view of the Russian nation while it was in the process of being made.
Spring always seems to begin on the morning that the Imp, in a bright pink nightgown, comes rushing into my room without knocking, and throws himself on my bed, with a sprig of almond blossom in his hand.
Der Struwwelpeter / oder lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder - Heinrich Hoffmann - "Der Struwwelpeter" gilt noch vor Max und Moritz als das erfolgreichste deutsche Kinderbuch überhaupt und wurde in viele Sprachen übersetzt.
A Tangled Tale Lewis Carroll - A Tangled Tale is a collection of 10 brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in The Monthly Packet magazine.
Der Struwwelpeter Heinrich Hoffmann - Struwwelpeter (auch Der Struwwelpeter) ist der Titel eines Werkes des Frankfurter Arztes und Psychiaters Heinrich Hoffmann aus dem Jahr 1844 und zugleich die Titelfigur des Buches.
Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre Johanna Spyri - Die beiden Kinderbücher Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre und Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat der Schweizer Autorin Johanna Spyri (18271901) aus den Jahren 1880 und 1881 gehören zu den bekanntesten Kinderbüchern der Welt.
The Jolly Corner Henry James - "e;The Jolly Corner"e; is a short story by Henry James published first in the magazine The English Review of December 1908.
The Crimson Fairy Book Andrew Lang - The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche Alleyne.
Alice's Abenteuer im Wunderland Lewis Carroll - Die fiktionale Welt, in der Alice im Wunderland angesiedelt ist, spielt in solch einer Weise mit Logik, dass sich die Erzählung unter Mathematikern und Kindern gleichermaßen großer Beliebtheit erfreut.
