An enchanting hardback collection of fairy tales illustrated with stunning vintage artwork from the Golden Age of children’s book illustration.
The perfect gift for any time of year (from Christmas to christenings and birthdays), this sumptuous collection of fairy tales is illustrated with stunning full colour watercolours and line drawings. With stories by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, and art by A. Duncan Carse and Charles Folkard, all of your childhood favourites are here and are ready to be passed on and retold to the next generation. Featuring well-loved tales, including:
- The Little Mermaid
- Red Riding Hood
- Cinderella
- Sleeping Beauty
- Snow White.
This beautiful hardback is a must-have for children of any age. The gorgeous vintage artwork decorates favourites including Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and many more, and will draw young readers back again and again.
This is Book 2 in the Bloomsbury Illustrated Children's Classics Series. See all Bloomsbury Illustrated Children's Classics books here.
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Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875) was a Danish author and prolific writer of plays, novels and poems, but he is best remembered for his fairy tales. Among his most-loved stories are The Emperor's New Clothes, The Ugly Duckling and The Snow Queen , but it is probably for The Little Mermaid that he is most fa
More about Hans Christian AndersenJacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786-1859) were German academics who specialized in folk culture. They collected over 200 folk tales during their lives and the methodology they developed became the basis for modern-day folklore studies.
More about Jacob GrimmJacob Ludwig Carol Grimm (1785-1863) and Wilhelm Carl Grimm (1786-1859), universally known as 'the brothers Grimm', were born in the German state of Hesse. Their ambition was to collect traditional tales in order to preserve Germany's heritage. They published two volumes in 1812 and 1814 which include some of the best-known fairy tales of all time, such as '
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