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Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books Series
Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books, also known as ‘Christmas Books,’ are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children, published between 1889 and 1913. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book. Here is the order of publication:
- The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
- The Red Fairy Book (1890)
- The Blue Poetry Book (1891)
- The Green Fairy Book (1892)
- The True Story Book (1893)
- The Yellow Fairy Book (1894)
- The Red True Story Book (1895)
- The Animal Story Book (1896)
- The Pink Fairy Book (1897)
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1898)
- The Red Book of Animal Stories (1899)
- The Grey Fairy Book (1900)
- The Violet Fairy Book (1901)
- The Book of Romance (1902)
- The Crimson Fairy Book (1903)
- The Brown Fairy Book (1904)
- The Red Romance Book (1905)
- The Orange Fairy Book (1906)
- The Olive Fairy Book (1907)
- The Book of Princes and Princesses (1908)
- The Red Book of Heroes (1909)
- The Lilac Fairy Book (1910)
- The All Sorts of Stories Book (1911)
- The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912)
- The Strange Story Book (1913)
Books in the Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books series:
The Lilac Fairy Book (1910)
A collection of international fairy tales. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The All Sorts of Stories Book (1911)
Thirty stories of adventure & magic, collected and retold by Leonora Lang. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Book of Saints and Heroes (1912)
A collection of biographies of saints and heroes. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Strange Story Book (1913)
A collection or stories, some of them true, mostly fictitious. Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Red Fairy Book (1924)
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Gustaf Tenggren
Arabian Nights (1946)
Tales selected from The Thousand Nights and a Night.
The Crimson Fairy Book (1947)
A collection of fairy tales mainly from European sources.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Ben Kutcher
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.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Janice Holland
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
The Olive Fairy Book (1950)
This new edition has a somewhat different selection of stories than the original edition.
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s):
Anne Vaughan
The Orange Fairy Book (1950)
A new set of illustrations for an old friend.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Christine Price
The Red Fairy Book (1950)
In this, the second of his fairy tale books, Andrew Lang does take a hand in the writing.
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s):
Marc Simont
The Violet Fairy Book (1951)
A collection of traditional fairy tales from many lands, with new illustrations.
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Illustrator(s):
Dorothy Lake Gregory
The Blue Fairy Book (1965)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
Jacomb Hood
Various
The Arabian Nights Entertainments (1969)
Tales from The Thousand Nights and a Night, include all of the adventures of Sindbad the sailor.
Author(s):
Anonymous
Illustrator(s):
H. J. Ford
The Blue Fairy Book (1975)
Author(s):
Various
Illustrator(s):
John Lawrence
The Red Fairy Book (1976)
Author(s):
Andrew Lang
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Faith Jaques
The Green Fairy Book (1978)
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Antony Maitland
The Yellow Fairy Book (1980)
A multitudinous collection of fairy tales from many lands.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Erik Blegvad
The Pink Fairy Book (1982)
A collection of fairy tales from many lands. Brian Alderson has pruned, corrected and retranslated some of the stories for this edition.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Colin McNaughton
The Rainbow Fairy Book (1993)
A selection of tales from the famous ‘Color’ fairy books.
Read online at archive.org.
Author(s):
Leonora Blanche Alleyne Lang
Et al
Illustrator(s):
Michael Hague