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The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries and were translated by Lang's wife and other translators who also retold many of the tales. The collection has been incalculably important and, although he did not source the stories himself direct from the oral tradition he can make claim to the first English translation of many.
First published in 1894, The Yellow Fairy Bookis the 4th volume in this series.
My 1920s Grosset & Dunlap is not the rare find of their edition of this book and has no color plates. It does have a funny preface by Andrew Lang re persons who do not like him publishing 'another' fairy tale book, --- the Red, Green and Blue already in print. There are 48 fairy tales, some familiar and others not so.
Another volume of Lang's comprehensive fairy tale compilation. The book 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. ( )
To Joan, Toddles, and Tiny. Books Yellow, Red, and Green, and Blue, All true, or just as good as true, and here's the Yellow Book for you!
Hard is the path from A to Z, and puzzling to a curly head, Yet leads to Books -- Green, Blue, and Red.
For every child should understand That letters from the first were planned To guide us into Fairy Land.
So labour at your Alphabet For by that learning you shall get to lands where Fairies may be met.
And going where this pathway goes, You too, at last, may find, who knows? The Garden of the Singing Rose.
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PREFACE The Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book.
THE CAT AND THE MOUSE IN PARTNERSHIP A cat had made acquaintance with a mouse, and had spoken so much of the great love and friendship she felt for her, that at last the Mouse consented to live in the same house with her, and go shares in the housekeeping.
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But she did not break, although the wagon wheel went over her; she lay there at full length, and there she may lie.
The Fairy Books, or "Coloured" Fairy Books is a collection of fairy tales divided into twelve books, each associated with a different colour. Collected together by Andrew Land they are sourced from a number of different countries and were translated by Lang's wife and other translators who also retold many of the tales. The collection has been incalculably important and, although he did not source the stories himself direct from the oral tradition he can make claim to the first English translation of many.
First published in 1894, The Yellow Fairy Bookis the 4th volume in this series.
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Contents: 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 Mountain -- 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.
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