Usborne Illustrated Fairy Tales.Usborne Illustrated Fairy Tales Sarah Courtauld, et al. EDC EDC See: Export Development Corp. Publishing PO Box 470663, Tulsa, OK 74146-6515 9780794517175, $19.99 www.edcpub.com 1-800-475-4522 Expertly designed by the team of Nancy Leschnifoff and Helen Wood, the "Usborne Illustrated Fairy Tales" is co-edited by Sarah Courtauld and Rosie Dickins to provide young readers with 352 pages of classic fairytales drawn from such popular sources as Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm, and others. Enhanced throughout with color illustrations, the tend individual stories comprising this outstanding volume include Sleeping Beauty Sleeping Beauty sleeps for 100 years. [Fr. Fairy Tale, The Sleeping Beauty] See : Enchantment Sleeping Beauty enchanted heroine awakened from century of slumber by prince’s kiss. ; the Emperor and the Nightingale; Beauty and the Beast Beauty and the Beast is a traditional fairy tale (type 425C -- search for a lost husband -- in the Aarne-Thompson classification). The first published version of the fairy tale was a meandering rendition by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve, published in ; The Dragon Painter; The Frog Prince; The Elves and the Shoemaker; Little Red Riding Hood Noun 1. Little Red Riding Hood - a girl in a fairy tale who meets a wolf while going to visit her grandmother ; Cinderella; The Swan Princess; The Emperor's New Clothes Emperor’s New Clothes supposedly invisible to unworthy people; in reality, nonexistent. [Dan. Lit.: Andersen’s Fairy Tales] See : Illusion Emperor’s New Clothes . An entertaining and handsome volume, the "Usborne Illustrated Fairy Tales" would make a welcome addition to any child's reading list and community library's fairytale/folklore collection for young readers. |
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