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Fairy Tales - Classic Genre

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Books in the Fairy Tales - Classic genre:

The Red Fairy Book (1924)

In this, his second fairy tale collection, Andrew Lang does take a hand in the writing. Read online at archive.org.... View More

The Golden Porch (1925)

Roman fairy tales adapted from the Odes of Pindar. Dugald Stewart Walker’s pen and ink drawings must be seen.

Little Pictures of Japan (1925)

This anthology includes Japanese haiku and two longer fairy tales.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Katharine Sturges

Nursery Friends from France (1925)

A collection of songs, nursery rhymes and tales from France intended for younger children. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

Chimney Corner Fairy Tales (1926)

A collection of traditional fairy tales.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Tales Told In Holland (1926)

A collection of stories, poems and pictures from Holland.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham

A Book of Princess Stories (1927)

Seventeen princess stories.

Candle-Light Stories (1927)

A collection of traditional folk and fairy tales.

Read online at archive.org

Author(s): Veronica S. Hutchinson
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Fireside Stories (1927)

Fourteen well-loved folk and fairy stories.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

Hansel and Gretel (1927)

Lost in the woods, two children come upon a gingerbread house.

Stories Children Love (1927)

Nine classic fairy tales.

The Ugly Duckling (1927)

One of the duck’s new chicks is uncommonly ugly.

Children’s Hour with The Three Bears and Other Stories (1929)

Includes The Three Bears, Jack and the Beanstalk and Dick Whittington and His Cat.

Author(s): Watty Piper
Illustrator(s): Eulalie Minfred Banks
Lois Lenski

There Were Giants (1929)

An anthology of stories about giants.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Lois Lenski

The Old Nursery Stories (1930)

Nine classic fairy tales in a new telling.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): W. H. Margetson

The Sun Princess (1930)

This is a later reprint of Queen Mab’s Fairy Realm. Read for free online at HathiTrust.... View More

The Wee Men of Ballywooden (1930)

Arthur Mason was an Irish sailor and gold prospector. He learned about the Wee Men from his mother when he was a boy growing up in Ireland. In this first book he tells of the Night of the Big Wind and how the Wee Men recovered their bagpipes from the... View More

Author(s): Arthur Mason
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Fairy Tales (1932)

A selection of Andersen’s best known stories.

Author(s): Hans Christian Andersen
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Fairy Tales Children Love (1932)

Nine classic fairy tales.

Author(s): Watty Piper
Illustrator(s): Eulalie Minfred Banks
Lois Lenski

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