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Fairy Tales - Modern Genre
Books in the Fairy Tales - Modern genre:
Best in Children’s Books Volume 37 (1960)
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 2 (1962)
This collection includes fables, folk tales, and fairy tales.
The Light Princess (1962)
Author(s):
George MacDonald
Illustrator(s):
William Pène du Bois
The Little Knife Who Did all the Work: Twelve Tales of Magic (1962)
A collection of fairy tales which includes a story of Arthur and Merlin.
Author(s):
Alison Uttley
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Cruise of the Little Dipper (1963)
Author(s):
Susanne K. Langer
Illustrator(s):
Helen Sewell
The Little Giant Girl and the Elf Boy (1963)
A little giant girl goes to pick a bush for the dinner table and meets a tiny elf boy.
Author(s):
Else Holmelund Minarik
Illustrator(s):
Garth Williams
The Lord of the Rings (1963)
This was a deluxe edition issued in a publisher’s slipcase with a tryptych illlustration by Pauline Baynes.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Captain Boldheart - The Magic Fishbone: Two Comedies (1964)
Captain Boldheart takes to piracy in despair of Latin grammar. The Princess Alicia for her part, sets matters to rights in her father’s kingdom with the aid of her fairy godmother Grandmarina.
Author(s):
Charles Dickens
Illustrator(s):
Hilary Knight
Swanhilda-of-the-Swans (1964)
When Swanholm and Swanso the swan prince and princess are trapped in the ice, Johan and Small Hilda must come to their rescue.
Author(s):
Dana Faralla
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
The Old Nurse’s Stocking Basket (1965)
Author(s):
Eleanor Farjeon
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Tree and Leaf (1965)
J.R.R. Tolkien’s ideas on the writing of fairy stories and an example of one.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Robert Quackenbush
Zeee (1965)
Author(s):
Elizabeth Enright
Illustrator(s):
Irene Haas
The Land of Green Ginger (1966)
Author(s):
Noel Langley
Illustrator(s):
Edward Ardizzone
Prince Rabbit and the Princess Who Could Not Laugh (1966)
Two fairy tales by the author of Pooh and the illustrator of Mary Poppins.
Author(s):
A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s):
Mary Shepard
The Beautiful Blue Jay, and Other Tales of India (1967)
A collection of twenty-five contemporary tales from India.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
None
Smith of Wooton Major (1967)
A fairy tale by the master. What happens when the smith’s son eats the fay-star at the Twenty-Four Feast of Good Children.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
The Lord of the Rings (1968)
This was the first one-volume paperback edition.
Author(s):
J. R. R. Tolkien
Illustrator(s):
Pauline Baynes
Animal Fairy Tales (1969)
These nine fairy tales were originally published in The Delineator magazine in 1905.
Author(s):
L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s):
Dick Martin
The Tailor of Gloucester from the Original Manuscript (1969)
Author(s):
Beatrix Potter
Illustrator(s):
Beatrix Potter
Stirabout Stories (1971)
A collection of modern fairy tales.
Author(s):
Barbara Sleigh
Illustrator(s):
Victor Ambrus