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Fairy Tales - Classic Genre

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Bedtime Stories (1942)

This collection includes Chicken Little, The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood and The Gingerbread Man. The pictures are in color and black and white. Later editions have only three stories. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Hans Christian Anderson, the Maker of Fairy Tales (1942)

This two-volume edition includes a new translation of some of the fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen as well his correspondence with his first American publisher, Horace Scudder.... View More

Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s): Fritz Kredel

The Tenggren Tell-It-Again Book (1942)

A collection of all-time favorite tales.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Katherine Gibson
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

Three Gay Tales from Grimm (1943)

Three more tales from the brothers Grimm, including ‘The Clever Wife,’ ‘The Three Feathers,’ and ‘Goose Hans.’ Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Grimm’s Fairy Tales (1944)

The complete Grimm translated by Margaret Hunt.

Author(s): Brothers Grimm
Illustrator(s): Josef Scharl

The Little Match Girl (1944)

Forced to sell matches on the street on a freezing Christmas eve, the little match girl is taken in by a kindly grandmother.

Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s): Gustaf Tenggren

The Tall Book of Nursery Tales (1944)

A collection of classic nursery tales.

Author(s): Feodor Rojankovsky
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

The Ugly Duckling (1945)

A classic story by the Danish master.

Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s): Feodor Rojankovsky

Arabian Nights (1946)

Tales selected from The Thousand Nights and a Night.

Author(s): Anonymous
Illustrator(s): Vera Bock

The Crimson Fairy Book (1947)

A collection of fairy tales mainly from European sources.

The Enchanted Book Stories From Many Lands (1947)

This is a fairy tale anthology.

Author(s): Alice Dalgliesh
Illustrator(s): Concetta Cacciola

More Tales from Grimm (1947)

Thirty-two more tales from the brothers Grimm, including ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ ‘Six Swans,’ and ‘The Shoemaker and the Elves.”

The Strand Magazine: The Christmas Number (1947)

A Christmas pantomime of Cinderella with sets and costumes by Ardizzone. The pictures may be cut out to make a toy theatre. The cover illustration is also by Ardizzone. This is volume 114 issue number 684.... View More

Author(s): Macdonald Hastings
Various
Illustrator(s): Edward Ardizzone

Golden Book of Nursery Tales (1948)

A collection of favorite nursery tales.

Author(s): Elsa Jane Werner
Illustrator(s): Tibor Gergely

The Green Fairy Book (1948)

A collection of classic fairy tales.

Author(s): Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s): Dorothy Lake Gregory

The Rose Fairy Book (1948)

A selection of tales from the Brown, Grey, Lilac, Orange and Pink Fairy Books.

Author(s): Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s): Vera Bock

The Yellow Fairy Book (1948)

A multitudinous collection of fairy tales from many lands.

Andersen’s Fairy Tales (1949)

A complete collection of bold and original Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen.

Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s): Fritz Kredel

Andersen’s Fairy Tales (1949)

A collection of bold and original Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen.

Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s): Pauline Baynes

The Blue Fairy Book (1949)

Fairy tales from France and Germany, Scotland and England and Scandinavia. Drawn from the Brothers Grimm, Madame d’Aulnoy, the Arabian Nights and Norway and more.

Author(s): Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s): Ben Kutcher

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