English Fairy Tales (Wordsworth Children's Classics) - Softcover

Steel, Flora Annie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853261335 ISBN 13: 9781853261336

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1994

Synopsis

This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different traditions also make their appearance, including The Three Bears and Little Red Hiding Hood.

About this title

About the Author:

Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) was born in London and worked in an Insurance office to pay for evening classes at the Lambeth School for Art. After his drawings were published in Punch, the English humor magazine, Rackham became well known for his distinctive, richly detailed illustrations for such classics as Gulliver's Travels, Mother Goose, The Fairy Tales of Grimm, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Aesop's Fables, and The Wind in the Willows.

Synopsis:

This book contains not only over 40 fairy tales, such as "Jack and the Beanstalk", "The Babes in the Woods", but stories from different traditions also make an appearance, including "The Three Bears" and "Little Red Riding Hood".

About this edition

• Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1853261335
• ISBN 13: 9781853261336
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Illustrator: Rackham Arthur