The Blue Fairy Book was the first volume in the series and so it contains some of the best known tales, taken from a variety of sources: not only from Grimm, but exciting adventures by Charles Perrault and Madame D'Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights, and other stories from popular traditions.

Table of Contents:
- The Bronze Ring
- Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess
- East of the Sun and West of the Moon
- The Yellow Dwarf
- Little Red Riding Hood
- The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood
- Cinderella; or the Little Glass Slipper
- Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
- The Tale of a Youth who Set out to Learn what Fear was
- Rumplestiltzkin
- Beauty and the Beast
- The Master Maid
- Why the Sea is Salt
- The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots
- Felicia and the Pot of Pinks
- The White Cat
- The Water-lily. The Gold Spinners
- The Terrible Head
- The Story of Pretty Goldilocks
- The History of Whittington
- The Wonderful Sheep
- Little Thumb
- The Forty Thieves
- Hansel and Grettel
- Snow-white and Rose-red
- The Goose-girl
- Toads and Diamonds
- Prince Darling
- Blue Beard
- Trusty John
- The Brave Little Tailor
- A Voyage to Lilliput
- The Princess on the Glass Hill
- The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou
- The History of Jack the Giant-killer
- The Black Bull of Norroway
- The Red Etin

This was fun to read through, to see variations and retellings of older stories and some new-to-me pieces. ( )

As with all anthologies, some of the stories were stronger than others - meaning I enjoyed some of this book very much and the rest not as much, or not at all. Worth reading if only to compare to other fairy tale anthologies (such as that of the Grimm brothers) or fairy tale retellings. ( )

A lot of new and familiar fairy tales. Some had an interesting twist but a lot of them did get monotonous after a while ( )

Not sure what to rate this one. It took me around 6 months to get through. Some of the fairy tales were just awful and there was quite a bit of very similar fairy tales. But then some of the fairy tales were wonderful. So, I will just skip with the rating.