Rainbow Magic - Series 1 Colour Fairies Collection 7 Books Set (Books 1 To 7)

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It's just the book you must get for your child, if you want them to make friends with the fairies in fiction and believe in magic. The publishers issued both Nielsen's Hans Andersen and Detmold's Arabian Nights in their Christmas list for 1924 (under the heading "Give the Best Art Books").

Includes: The Cat’s Elopement; How the Dragon was Tricked; The Goblin and the Grocer; The House in the Wood; Uraschimataro and the Turtle; The Slaying of the Tanuki; The Flying Trunk; The Snow Man; The Shirt-Collar; The Princess in the Chest; The Three Brothers; The Snow-queen; The Fir-Tree; Hans, the Mermaid’s Son; Peter Bull; The Bird ‘Grip’; Snowflake; I know what I have learned; The Cunning Shoemaker; The King who would have a Beautiful Wife; Catherine and her Destiny; How the Hermit helped to win the King’s Daughter; The Water of Life; The Wounded Lion; The Man without a Heart; The Two Brothers; Master and Pupil; The Golden Lion; The Sprig of Rosemary; The White Dove; The Troll’s Daughter; Esben and the Witch; Princess Minon-Minette; Maiden Bright-eye; The Merry Wives; King Lindworm; The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther; The Little Hare; The Sparrow with the Slit Tongue; The Story of Ciccu; Don Giovanni de la Fortuna. Whilst Rainbow Magic Books are available in sets suitable for early readers that is children aged 3 + they also have a magical adventures collection set for older kids aged 6 and above. Up until the Magical Crafts Fairies set, each series included 7 books focused on a central theme, but starting with the following set, the School Days Fairies, each series now contains only 4 books. This lavish Christmas gift book is perhaps the finest work of the illustrator Thomas Mackenzie (1887-1944).And later, perhaps try a bit of ballet: Michaela de Prince's moving and fabulous Hope in a Ballet Shoe and Noel Streatfeild's Ballet Shoes. The Story of the Seven Simons; The Language of Beasts; The Boy Who Could Keep a Secret; The Prince and the Dragon; Little Wildrose; Tiidu the Piper; Paperarello; The Gifts of the Magician; The Strong Prince; The Treasure Seeker; The Cottager and his Cat; The Prince Who Would Seek Immortality; The Stone-cutter; The Gold-bearded Man; Tritill, Litill, and the Birds; The Three Robes; The Six Hungry Beasts; How the Beggar Boy turned into Count Piro; The Rogue and the Herdsman; Eisenkopf; The Death of Abu Nowas and of his Wife; Motikatika; Niels and the Giants; Shepherd Paul; How the Wicked Tanuki was Punished; The Crab and the Monkey; The Horse Gullfaxi and the Sword Gunnfoder; The Story of the Sham Prince, or the Ambitious Tailor; The Colony of Cats; How to find out a True Friend; Clever Maria; The Magic Kettle. Includes: Madschun; The Blue Parrot; Geirlug The King’s Daughter; The Story of Little King Loc; A Long-Bow Story; Jackal or Tiger? Toss together a younger brother stolen away by faeries, a best friend who’s actually Puck in disguise, a romance with the prince of the Unseelie Court, and powers that make her a point of contention between the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, and Meghan has a lot of trouble on her hands.

A contemporary review in The Bookman notes, "here we see some of [Rackham's] most delightful and characteristic work - wizened old women, gnarled old trees which assume all manner of grotesque expressions, quaint, vivacious mice, beetles, etc. So expect no complex plots here, but the books are apparently very satisfying to a five-year-old, and successful in fuelling a little girl's fairy fantasies. Definitely not the best ability for a human to have, so she’s constructed a set of rules to keep her safe: pretend not to see them, don’t acknowledge their presence, and don’t attract their attention. Includes: The Cat and the Mouse in Partnership; The Six Swans; The Dragon of the North; Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes; The Golden Crab; The Iron Stove; The Dragon and his Grandmother; The Donkey Cabbage; The Little Green Frog; The Seven-headed Serpent; The Grateful Beasts; The Giants and the Herd-boy; The Invisible Prince; The Crow; How Six Men Travelled Through the Wide World; The Wizard King; The Nixy; The Glass Mountain; Alphege, or the Green Monkey; Fairer-than-a-Fairy; The Three Brothers; The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise; The Glass Axe; The Dead Wife; In the Land of Souls; The White Duck; The Witch and Her Servants; The Magic Ring; The Flower Queen’s Daughter; The Flying Ship; The Snow-daughter and the Fire-son; The Story of King Frost; The Death of the Sun-hero; The Witch; The Hazel-nut Child; The Story of Big Klaus and Little Klaus; Prince Ring; The Swineherd; How to tell a True Princess; The Blue Mountains; The Tinder-box; The Witch in the Stone Boat; Thumbelina; The Nightingale; Hermod and Hadvor; The Steadfast Tin-soldier; Blockhead Hans; A Story about a Darning-needle. In this collection therefore, we are shifting the spotlight to books with fairy characters and not just fairy tales.First edition of this collection of European fairy tales, which includes the first appearance in book form of Edward Burne-Jones's illustrations. Folk stories abound of the fey tempting humans with food, music, or love—much to the human’s ultimate regret. First edition, first impression, of the tenth of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books, gathering folk stories from Africa to Jutland, here a particularly fine copy preserving - most unusually - the original dust jacket, without restoration. But everything in this magic kingdom is not as idyllic as it first seems, the Realm is in danger and Jessie must outwit an evil enemy to save it before it is all destroyed.