This acclaimed best-seller, first published in 1978, transports readers into a world of pure magic and mystery.

    All the central characters are spirited females—decisive heroes of extraordinary courage, wit, and achievement who set out to determine their own fate. Some of their stories are comic, some adventurous, some eerie, and some magical. The Chicago Sun-Times writes: "A sparkling gathering of traditional, yet little-known, tales from all parts of the globe. The female characters. . . manage to outsmart, outdo, and over-power the villains with nerves of steel, cunning minds, and disarming senses of humor."

    She is thin and awkward; it is her two sisters who are the beautiful ones. But what she lacks in looks, she can perhaps make up for in courage.When her father comes home with the tale of an enchanted castle in the forest and the terrible promise he had to make to the Beast who lives there, Beauty knows she must go to the castle, a prisoner of her own free will. Her father protests that he will not let her go, but she answers, "Cannot a Beast be tamed?"Robin McKinley's beloved telling illuminates the unusual love story of a most unlikely couple, Beauty and the Beast.

    Each section is followed by stories of each film's production, with behind-the-scenes facts about the artists, voice actors, and the time and money spent. 228 illustrations, including 201 in full color.

    Zvorykin left Russia after the Revolution and settled finally in Paris, where he found employment in the publishing house of H. Piazza. At some point in the 1920s, years after the Russia he knew had disappeared, he made the original of this book as a present for his employer, Louis Fricotelle. He translated four Russian fairy tales into French, writing them out in beautiful calligraphy and illustrating them on heavy vellum pages, which he then bound in red Moroccan leather embossed with Russian motifs. It was a gift of gratitude for a new life, celebrating all he valued and missed in the old.Fifty years later Andreas Brown of the Gotham Book MArt brought this luxurious manuscript to the attention of Jacqueline Onassis (who also edited In the Russian Style) and The Viking Press, where it was decided to issue the book in a format that would make it accessible to the public. All the splendid illustrations - vivid in color, detail, and not least of all, whimsy - are reproduced from the original art. The stories - The Firebird, Maria Morevna, The Snow Maiden, and Vassilissa the Fair - spiced with quintessentially Russian images and supernatural beings, are based on existing English translations that have been modified to preserve the flavor of Zvorykin's versions.

    These "Selected Works provide facsimile editions of her landmark writings, spanning the whole of her publishing career, from 1959 to 1980.

    S. Lewis but also such literary masters as Charles Williams and J. R. R. Tolkien. Though his longer fairy tales Lilith and Phantastes are particularly famous, much of MacDonald’s best fantasy writing is found in his shorter stories. In this volume editor Glenn Sadler has compiled some of MacDonald’s finest short works—marvelous fairy tales and stories certain to delight readers familiar with MacDonald and those about to meet him for the first time.

    From orange trees growing at the command of a child to talking fish, these stories present us with a world of wonder, delight, and mystery.

    Iiri ja šoti rahvajutte.

    In fact, the book is mostly a collection of tales published in previous Manning-Sanders anthologies.Contents:My lord bag of rice (Japan) Merman Rosmer (Scotland) The old witch (England) The skipper and the dwarfs (Jutland) Something wonderful (Finland) Selim and the Snake Queen (Greek Isles) Jon and his brothers (French Canada) The monster with seven heads (Madagascar) The giant who had no heart in his body (Norway) The little tailor and the three dogs (Germany) The silver penny (Hungary) Vasilissa most lovely (Russia) Fin M'Coul and Cucullin (Ireland) King Josef (Czechoslovakia) Long, Broad and Sharpsight (Bohemia) The Knights of the the Fish (Spain) The girl in the basket (Italy) The monster in the mill (Macedonia) The lost prince (Iceland) --Lilla Rosa (Sweden) Smoke bones (North America (Indian)) The magic roots (South America) The sailor and the devil (Holland) Sausages (Transylvania) The caribous wife (Alaska)

    The book includes the following stories, all retold by Bridget Hadaway:* Jack and the Beanstalk* Little Red Riding Hood* Hansel and Gretel* Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves* The Magic Kettle* Aniello and His Little Speckled Hen* The Princess and the Pea* Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs* Puss in Boots* Dick Whittington and His Cat* The Pied Piper of Hamelin* The Voyages of Sindbad the Sailor* The Snake Prince* Cannetella and the Wizard* The Little Mermaid* The Gingerbread Man* Goldilocks and the Three Bears* The Sleeping Beauty* Rapunzel* The Firebird* The Knights of the Fish* The Little Tin Soldier* Foolish Jim and Clever James* The Three Little Pigs* Beauty and the Beast* The Golden Goose

    

    This picture-book, published in the former Soviet Union, contains two traditional Russian folktales

    Characters ranging from hedgehogs to humans, from pigs to bears, follow the changes of the year with an intense enjoyment of the world of nature.

    A princess whose radiant beauty blinds her and all who look upon her finds only one man willing to submit to her test for suitors--the court fool.

    Fifteen full-page illustrations of the strange haunting world of the trolls accompanied by a simple descriptive text.