A book of magical beasts
By: Illustrated by Raymond Briggs
Contributors: Briggs, Raymond, ill
Edition: [1st U.S. ed.].
Publisher: T. Nelson
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Camden [N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
Subjects: Fantasy; Juvenile fiction; Animals; Mythical Animals; Fiction
Other titles: Magical beasts.
Description: Modern and ancient poems and short stories from around the world about make-believe beasts.
Table of contents: title: The Hedley cow  -- Joseph Jacobs; title: The straw ox  -- R.N. Bain; title: The last of the dragons  -- E. Nesbit; title: The audacious kitten  -- Oliver Herford; title: Lord Peter  -- G.W. Dasent; title: Europa and the bull  -- anon.; title: The fisherman's son  -- Adolf Dirr; title: The stone monkey  -- H.A. Giles; title: The tinder box  -- Hans Andersen; title: Alison Gross  -- anon.; title: The serpent and the peasant  -- Margery Wardrop; title: The horny-goloch  -- anon.; title: Dapplegrim  -- G.W. Dasent; title: The Derbyshire ram  -- anon.; title: The grateful goat  -- W.H.D. Rouse; title: Prince Prigio and the firedrake  -- Andrew Lang; title: Jabberwocky  -- Lewis Carroll; title: The golden crab  -- Bernhard Schmidt; title: The magic swan  -- H. Kletke; title: The lion and the unicorn  -- anon.; title: The story of the stone lion  -- Capt. W.F. O'Connor; title: The tea-kettle -- Grace James.; title: A frog he would a wooing go  -- anon.; title: The frog  -- Leonora Alleyne; title: The seven fools  -- G.W. Dasent; title: The strange white beast  -- J.B.; title: The husband of the rat's daughter  -- Leonora Alleyne; title: The friendly animals  -- W.M. Petrovitch; title: Earl Mar's daughter  -- anon.; title: The white bear  -- G.W. Dasent; title: Kempe Owyne  -- anon.; title: Jack and his comrades  -- Joseph Jacobs; title: The lame vixen  -- A.H. Wratislaw; title: The kraken  -- Lord Tennyson; title: Drakestail  -- Charles Morelles; title: The well of the world's end  -- Joseph Jacobs; title: Little red bird -- Mona Douglas.