Christmas fairy tales
By: selected by Neil Philip ; illustrated by Isabelle Brent.
Contributors: Brent, Isabelle, ill.; Philip, Neil.
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Christmas stories.; Fairy tales.; Children's stories.; Christmas -- Literary collections.
Notes: "An Albion book"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Neil Philip; title: The book of fairy tales / Hans Christian Andersen; title: The Christmas cuckoo / Frances Browne; title: The nutcracker / E.T.A. Hoffmann; title: Father Christmas and the carpenter / Alf Prøysen; title: Why the sea is salt : Norwegian folktale; title: The poor Count's Christmas / Frank Stockton; title: Babushka and the three wise men : Russian legend; title: The fir tree / Hans Christian Andersen; title: Schnitzle, Schnotzle, and Schnootzle / Ruth Sawyer; title: The best that life has to give / Howard Pyle; title: The story of a cat / Mary de Morgan; title: The last dream of the old oak tree / Hans Christian Andersen.