THE SECOND BOOK OF FAIRY TALES - 19 illustrated children's tales raising funds for Children in Need E-Book

Anon E. Mouse

• Herausgeber: Abela Publishing
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

This book has been especially re-published to raise funds for the BBC’s Children in Need Appeal. The stories herein were originally published over a century ago. Some will be familiar fare and others less familiar, but all are entertaining and appealing nonetheless.

The 19 illustrated stories in this volume are:

• The Sleeping Beauty In The Wood
• Prince Hyacinth And The Dear Little Princess
• Cinderella Or The Little Glass Slipper
• East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon
• Rumpelstiltzkin
• The Tale Of A Youth Who Set Out To Learn  What Fear Was
• Lovely Ilonka
• Beauty And The Beast
• Lucky Luck
• Why The Sea Is Salt
• The Master Cat Or Puss In Boots
• The Six Swans
• The Prince And The Dragon
• The Dragon Of The North
• Little Wildrose
• The Nixy
• The Glass Mountain
• Fairer-Than-A-Fairy
• The White Duck

The words 'Fairy Tales' must be taken to include tales in which something 'fairy', something extraordinary occurs -- fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals. One cannot imagine a child saying, 'Tell me a folk-tale', or 'Another nursery tale, please, grandma'.  It must also be taken to cover tales in which something magical happens. Mostly it is the comical stupidity of some of the actors, as is so common in moral tales.

In buying this book you will be giving in more than one way. Once to the Children in Need appeal and again, to yourself, as you read and enjoy stories not read for many a year. But should you perchance happen to read these stories to your children, nieces and nephews or grand-children, you will be giving yet again. 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be donated to the appeal.

So take some time out and travel back to a period before television, or even radio for that matter, when families would gather around a crackling and spitting hearth and granddad or grandma  or an uncle or aunt would delight and captivate their audience with stories passed on to them from their mothers, fathers and grandparents.
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Leseprobe

The Second Book of Fairy Tales

Raising funds

for

BBC’s Children in Need Appeal

Compiled & Edited by

John Halsted

Published byAbela Publishing, London[2018]

The Second Book of Fairy TalesTypographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2018

This book may not be reproduced in its current format in any manner in any media, or transmitted by any means whatsoever, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, or mechanical ( including photocopy, file or video recording, internet web sites, blogs, wikis, or any other information storage and retrieval system) except as permitted by law without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Abela Publishing,

London

United Kingdom

2018

ISBN-13: 978-X-XXXXXX-XX-X

email:

[email protected]

Website

www.AbelaPublishing.com

Dots Yellow, Red, and Green and Blue,And on the cover see more cluesIt's a Fairy Book just for You!

Hard is the path from A to Z,And puzzling to a curly head,Yet they lead to understanding, it must be said.

For every child should understandThat letters from the first were plannedTo guide us into Fairy Land.

So labour at your Alphabet,For by that learning shall you getTo lands where Fairies may be met.

And going where this pathway goes,You too, at last, may find, who knows -The Garden of the Singing Rose?

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Dedication

This book is forevermore dedicated to raising funds for

BBC Children in Need

50% of the profit from the sale of this book

will benefit The BBC’s Children in Need Appeal.

A company limited by guarantee.

Charity number802052 in England & WalesandSC039557 in Scotland.

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Our first book of Fairy Tales published to raise funds forBBC Children in Needis titledThe First Book of Fairy Talesand can obtained through the major online bookstores.

Acknowledgements

The stories in this book have been selected from the colourful series of fairy tales compiled and edited by the late Andrew Lang over a century ago.

As such, the publisher wishes to acknowledge the work that

Andrew Lang(1844 – 1912)

did in editing and compiling his fairy booksin a time well before any electronic media was in use.

We are sure that Mr. Langwould be most supportive in the use of Fairy Talesfrom his original series to raise funds for

The BBC’s Children in Need Appeal

Preface

There was a time, just over a century ago, when the president of the British Folk Lore Society believed it was not acceptable for the editors of the day, Mr Andrew Lang and Mr. Joseph Jacobs, to publish fairy books. Their reply was that they did not see any harm in it, and they were ready to 'put themselves on their country,' and be tried by a jury of children.

As to whether there are really any fairies or not, that is a difficult question. The Editor never saw any himself, but he knew several people who have seen them-in the Highlands-and heard their music. If ever you are in Nether Lochaber, go to the Fairy Hill, and you may hear the music yourself, as grown-up people have done, but you must go on a fine day.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks, the old Egyptians, the Hindus, and even the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

This volume contains Russian, German, French, Romanian, and other stories. Mr Lang could not say 'good-bye' without advising the children, as they pursue their studies, to read The Rose and the Ring, by the late Mr. Thackeray. He believes this book is quite indispensable in every child's library, and parents should be urged to purchase it at the first opportunity, as without it no education is complete.

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Contents

Dots Yellow, Red, And Green And Blue

Acknowledgements

Preface

The Sleeping Beauty In The Wood

Prince Hyacinth And The Dear Little Princess

Cinderella Or The Little Glass Slipper

East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon

Rumpelstiltzkin

The Tale Of A Youth Who Set Out To Learn What Fear Was

Lovely Ilonka

Beauty And The Beast

Lucky Luck

Why The Sea Is Salt

The Master Cat Or Puss In Boots

The Six Swans

The Prince And The Dragon

The Dragon Of The North

Little Wildrose

The Nixy

The Glass Mountain

Fairer-Than-A-Fairy

The White Duck

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The Sleeping Beauty

In The Wood

here were formerly a King and a Queen, who were so sorry that they had no children, so sorry that it cannot be expressed. They went to all the waters in the world; vows, pilgrimages, all ways were tried and all to no purpose. At last, however, the Queen proved with child, and was brought to bed of a daughter. There was a very fine christening; and the Princess had for her godmothers all the Fairies they could find in the whole kingdom (they found seven), that every one of them might give her a gift, as was the custom of Fairies in those days, and that by this means the Princess might have all the perfections imaginable.

After the ceremonies of the christening were over, all the company returned to the King's palace, where was prepared a great feast for the Fairies. There was placed before every one of them a magnificent cover with a case of massive gold, wherein were a spoon, knife and fork, all of pure gold set with diamonds and rubies. But as they were all sitting down at table, they saw come into the hall a very old Fairy whom they had not invited, because it was above fifty years since she had been out of a certain tower, and she was believed to be either dead or inchanted. The King ordered her a cover, but could not furnish her with a case of gold as the others, because they had seven only made for the seven Fairies. The old Fairy fancied she was slighted, and muttered some threat between her teeth.