Best of
Fairy-Tales

1938

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs


Wanda Gág - 1938
    She always gets the answer she wants, until Snow White turns seven, and the mirror must truthfully answer, "Snow White." At the news, the Queen turns yellow and green with envy and commands the huntsman to kill Snow White and bring her "lung and liver as a token." Thus begins another enchanting fairy tale from the Brothers Grimm! Kirkus Reviews called this collaboration between Randall and Nancy Eckholm Burkert "a sort of legend even before its time of publication." Jarrell also wrote The Bat-Poet and The Animal Family, a Newbery Honor Book. Jarrell retained the Grimm (and grim) ending to the tale, as the stepmother is forced to dance to her death. Burkert's illustrations are magical, light-filled creations that more than earn the book its Caldecott Honor Book status. This delightful book's extra-large format showcases the fabulously detailed illustrations, alternating two facing pages of art with two pages of straight text. This is an unforgettable interpretation of a well-loved story. (Ages 6 to 9)

The Favourite Wonder Book


A.A. Milne - 1938
    Nesbit, Eleanor Farjeon, Geoffrey Dearmer, LAG Strong, Lord Dunsany, Karel Capek, O. Henry, Maurice Baring, Ronald Frankau, AP Herbert, Kenneth Grahame and other stories and poems by famous writers.With numerous illustrations by well-known artists.'- From the first pageA charming collection of children's stories and poems reminiscent of a bygone era also including stories by Charlotte Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Leo Tolstoy, Walter de la Mare, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, ETA Hoffman, Hans Christian Andersen and The Brothers Grimm, among others.