num_pages: 413
description: Many different characters come to life inside this beautifully illustrated book: handsome princes fearsome monsters wise old women wicked demons and lovely princesses. The author James Riordan has travelled throughout the world collecting folk and fairy stories and his powerful re-tellings of traditional tales have attracted considerable critical acclaim.Alongside perennial favourites like Beauty and the Beast Pinocchio The Little Match Girl Rapunzel and Tom Thumb the reader will find some less well-known but equally spell-binding stories: Kwaku Ananse and the Python The Rainbow and the Bread Fruit Flower The Black Bull of Norroway and The Flying Cherry Tree. In all over fifty stories are included from places as far apart as Australia and Finland India and Mexico and Scotland and North America.To complement the author's unique gift for story-telling nineteen outstanding artists--including Victor Ambrus Carol Barker Shirley Tourret Robin Lawrie and Marilyn Day--have been chosen to illustrate the tales. They have produced a stunning selection of imaginative color illustrations ensuring this superb book will be treasured by children everywhere.
language: English
title: An Illustrated Treasury of Fairy and Folk Tales
publisher: Hamlyn Publishing