White as milk, red as blood
Subtitle: the forgotten fairy tales of Franz Xaver von Schönwerth
By: illustrated by Willow Dawson ; translated by Shelley Tanaka ; with a foreword by Philip Pullman
Contributors: Pullman, Philip, 1946- writer of foreword; Tanaka, Shelley, translator; Dawson, Willow, illustrator
Publisher: Knopf Canada
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 114
ISBN-13: 9780345812179
Subjects: Fairy tales; Folklore
Work titles: Works
Description: "In the grand tradition of newly translated and illustrated collections of fairy tales, we present this collection of "lost" German fairy tales by Franz Xaver von Schonwerth, translated by Canadian Shelley Tanaka and illustrated by local artist Willow Dawson. From the Guardian, March 2012: "A whole new world of magic animals, brave young princes and evil witches has come to light with the discovery of 500 new fairytales, which were locked away in an archive in Regensburg, Germany for over 150 years. The tales are part of a collection of myths, legends and fairytales, gathered by the local historian Franz Xaver von Schonwerth (1810-1886) in the Bavarian region of Oberpfalz at about the same time as the Grimm brothers were collecting the fairytales that have since charmed adults and children around the world." Unlike his contemporaries, the Grimm Brothers, who edited and polished the tales they collected, von Schonwerth, a linguist, left his untouched. His books subsequently languished and were lost to time...until now."--
Notes: Translated from the German.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 108-110).

Translated from the German.