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 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
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