The World's Best Fairy Tales
Subtitle: A Reader's Digest Anthology
By: Edited by: Belle Becker Sideman; Illustrations by: Fritz Kredel.
Edition: 1st Reader's Digest ed. 1967
Series: Reader's Digest books
Publisher: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc.
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Pleasantville, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 832
Copyright date: 1967
Other titles: ''World's Best Fairy Tales''
Description: A collection of sixty-nine well-known fairy tales from around the world, translated and gathered by recognized contributors to the field of folklore.

Fairy Tales and other folk tales are among the oldest works of man. The most ancient stories in this book probably originated in Asia, then passed through Europe and Africa. And every people adapted the tales to their own life, shifting the details to fit local customs. Worn smooth by ages of telling, the stories acquired that distinctive conciseness of form and rapidity of movement which are among their principal charms.--Excerpt of Introduction..Pg. 5
Notes: Manufactured in the U.S.A. / Published simultaneously in Canada by The Reader's Digest Association (Canada) Ltd.
Table of contents: title: Pied Piper of Hamelin --; title: Snow White and Rose Red --; title: It's perfectly true! --; title: Tom Thumb --; title: Nightingale --; title: Chicken Little --; title: Frog Prince --; title: Cinderella --; title: Princess and the pea --; title: Ali Baba and the forty thieves --; title: Golden goose --; title: Why the sea is salt --; title: Ugly duckling --; title: Jack and the beanstalk --; title: Two frogs --; title: Snow queen --; title: Six sillies --; title: Hedgehog and the rabbit --; title: Thumbelina --; title: Sorcerer's apprentice --; title: Red riding hood --; title: Little mermaid --; title: Five wise words --; title: Goose-girl --; title: Beauty and the beast --; title: Town mouse and the country mouse --; title: Snow White and the seven dwarfs --; title: Tinderbox --; title: Little fir tree --; title: Bronze ring --; title: Three billy goats gruff --; title: Boy who kept a secret --; title: Magic kettle --; title: Jorinda and Joringel --; title: Puss in boots --; title: Emperors' new clothes --; title: Billy Beg and his bull --; title: Little one eye, little two eyes and little three eyes --; title: Red shoes --; title: Steadfast tin soldier --; title: Snegourka, the snow maiden --; title: Three little pigs --; title: Shoemaker and the elves --; title: Doctor knows it all --; title: Six swans --; title: Dick Whittington and his cat --; title: Rapunzel --; title: Aladdin and the wonderful lamp --; title: Three bears --; title: Rumpelstiltzkin --; title: Golden-headed fish --; title: Hansel and Gretel --; title: Brave little tailor --; title: Gingerbread man --; title: Horned goat --; title: Seven Simons --; title: Little match-girl --; title: East of the sun and west of the moon --; title: Musicians of Bremen --; title: Blue beard --; title: Princess on the glass hill --; title: Half-chick --; title: Sleeping beauty --; title: Magic carpet --; title: Jack the giant killer --; title: Twelve dancing princesses --; title: Little Claus and big Claus --; title: Colony of cats --; title: Sindbad the sailor.