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Fairy Tales - Modern Genre

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Books in the Fairy Tales - Modern genre:

School in Fairyland (1896)

The story of a class of girls taught by fairies.

Author(s): E. H. Strain
Illustrator(s): L. Leslie Brooke

The Monkey's Trick (1897)

Four stories you can read online at Baldwin Library.

Author(s): E. Veale
Illustrator(s): Palmer Cox

Our Brownie's ABC (1898)

A Brownie ABC in color interspersed with humorous animal tales in verse. Read online at Baldwin Library.

Author(s): Palmer Cox
Illustrator(s): Palmer Cox

The Bee-Blowaways (1900)

“A Bee-Bloway is a musical note B which has turned into a stinging bee, and has flown away.” A Wonderland-like musical fantasy. Read for free online at David Brass Rare Books.... View More

Author(s): Agnes Grozier Herbertson
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Windfairies (1900)

Nine new tales. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Author(s): Mary A. de Morgan
Illustrator(s): Olive Cockerell

American Fairy Tales (1901)

A dozen new fairy tales for American boys and girls. Read online at Project Gutenberg.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Ike Morgan
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Queen Mab’s Fairy Realm (1901)

A collection of literary and traditional fairy tales. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Just So Stories (1902)

A collection of stories describing how the animals got the way they are -- each to be told ‘just so.’ Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Rudyard Kipling

Just So Stories (1902)

A collection of stories describing how the animals got the way they are -- each to be told ‘just so.’ Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Rudyard Kipling

The Enchanted Island of Yew (1903)

When a fairy takes on the form of a mortal prince for a year, she has many adventures among the people of the Island of Yew. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): Fanny Y. Cory

Just So Stories for Little Children (1903)

A collection of stories describing how the animals got the way they are -- each to be told ‘just so.’ This volume of the collected works adds a final story ‘The Tabu Tale.’ Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Rudyard Kipling
Illustrator(s): Rudyard Kipling

The Rainbow Queen and Other Stories (1903)

Three fairy tales including How Jack Came to Tea, Linda and The Prince and Fairy Godmother.

Author(s): E. Nesbit
Illustrator(s): E. Taylor
M. F. Taylor
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Kingdoms Curious (1905)

A collection of new fairy stories. Read for free online at HathiTrust.

Woodmyth and Fable (1905)

A collection of short myths or fables, most with a moral. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1906)

First separate printing of Peter’s first appearance in The Little White Bird. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): J. M. Barrie
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

The Queen’s Museum and Other Fanciful Tales (1906)

A collection of modern fairy tales and satires including The Bee-Man of Orn and The Griffin and the Minor Canon. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): Frank R. Stockton
Illustrator(s): Frederick Richardson

Tales of a Fairy Court (1906)

Further adventures of Prince Prigio.

Author(s): Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s): A. A. Dixon

The Land of Enchantment (1907)

A collection of new fairy tales. Read for free online at Internet Archive.

The Princess and the Goblin (1907)

The Princess Irene is being raised at her King Papa’s hunting lodge. When her nurse keeps her out too late one evening, they are rescued from the goblins by Curdy, a miner’s son. Read online at Hathitrust.... View More

Author(s): George MacDonald
Illustrator(s): Arthur Hughes
Maria L. Kirk

Baum’s American Fairy Tales (1908)

This new edition includes three additional tales, for a total of fifteen plus a new suite of illustrations.

Author(s): L. Frank Baum
Illustrator(s): George F. Kerr

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