This big book of fairy tales holds true to the rule, that sometimes - the oldest fairy tales are the best Here is a collection of some of the finest stories from around the globe, including classics from Arabian Nights such as 'Aladdin' and 'Sinbad the Sailor', Hans Christian Anderson's best work with 'The Ugly Ducking', 'Little Tin Soldier' and 'The Little Match girl' as well as the archetypal tales from Charles Perrault including 'Blue Beard', 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Puss in Boots.' Other tales with less well known literary lineages, such as 'Dick Whittington' and 'Jack and the...

This big book of fairy tales holds true to the rule, that sometimes - the oldest fairy tales are the best Here is a collection of some of the finest stories from around the globe, including classics from Arabian Nights such as 'Aladdin' and 'Sinbad the Sailor', Hans Christian Anderson's best work with 'The Ugly Ducking', 'Little Tin Soldier' and 'The Little Match girl' as well as the archetypal tales from Charles Perrault including 'Blue Beard', 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Puss in Boots.' Other tales with less well known literary lineages, such as 'Dick Whittington' and 'Jack and the...

'The Happy Prince', one of Wilde's best-loved stories, tells of the attempts of a kind-hearted statue and an amorous swallow to rid their city of poverty, and of their heavenly reward. The book includes the tale of the unjust but repentant giant who discovers joy in loving others, the nightingale who is willing to die for love, and a pompous although very remarkable rocket, ready to display his talents and his ignorance. Full of splendid, joyous imagery the stories are infused with an underlying wisdom and morality. Beguilingly haunting and original, these are timeless tales that remain as...

The cloud kingdom first published in 1908, is a compilation of children's poems by I. Henry Wallis, beautifully illustrated by Charles Robinson a prolific British book illustrator of the time. This edition of the book was professionally edited for a more pleasurable reading experience.

The following verses have been selected from "Lilliput Levee," 1868, and from W. B. Rands' numerous contributions to magazines. He wrote under many signatures, never enumerated. These are poems for children, with whom Rands was always at his best, and have been chosen in remembrance of their tastes and understandings.

INTRODUCTION THE very title "Nursery Rhymes," which has come to be associated with a A great body of familiar verse, is in itself sufficient evidence ot how that verse has been passed down from generation to generation. Some pieces date, perhaps, from hundreds of years ago, and had been repeated thousands of times betore they were printed. There are not wanting learned tolk who tell us that there was once, in Britain, a King Cole, and that the only relic of his reign which we have is the verse in which he is shown calling for his pipe, his bowl, and his fiddlers three. Such wise people forget...