Best of
Fairy-Tales

1986

Disney Sleeping Beauty


Michael Teitelbaum - 1986
    YOUNG AND OLD fans will love this full-color Little Golden Book retelling of Walt Disney's "Sleeping Beauty"--the story of Princess Aurora and the three good fairies who try to protect her from Maleficent's evil spell.

Rumpelstiltskin


Paul O. Zelinsky - 1986
    Adults will find that, like most classic fairy tales, this one rewards periodic rethinking." --New York Times Book Review"Zelinsky's smooth retelling and glowing pictures cast the story in a new and beautiful light." -- School Library Journal

The Weaving of a Dream


Marilee Heyer - 1986
    One day, she trades a brocade for a beautiful painting of a palace. She then spends years lovingly recreating the scene in brocade only to lose her work on a windy day. After everything she has done for her family, her youngest son seeks to recover the lost treasure, traveling through terrible weather and rocky terrain.Great for ages 5 and up. Beautiful and vibrant full-color illustrations.

Favorite Folktales from Around the World


Jane Yolen - 1986
    Over 150 tales are compiled from Iceland to Syria, Cuba to Papua.Part of the Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library

Don't Bet on the Prince: Contemporary Feminist Fairy Tales in North America and England


Jack D. Zipes - 1986
    It demonstrates how recent writers have changed the aesthetic constructs and social content of fairy tales to reflect cultural change since the 1960s in area of gender roles, socialization and education. It includes selected works from such writers as Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood and Jay Williams, and critical essays from Marcia Lieberman and Sandra Gilbert.

An Illustrated Treasury of Fairy and Folk Tales


James Riordan - 1986
    The author, James Riordan, has travelled throughout the world collecting folk and fairy stories and his powerful re-tellings of traditional tales have attracted considerable critical acclaim.Alongside perennial favourites like "Beauty and the Beast," "Pinocchio," "The Little Match Girl," "Rapunzel," and "Tom Thumb," the reader will find some less well-known but equally spell-binding stories: "Kwaku Ananse and the Python," "The Rainbow and the Bread Fruit Flower," "The Black Bull of Norroway," and "The Flying Cherry Tree." In all, over fifty stories are included from places as far apart as Australia and Finland, India and Mexico and Scotland and North America.To complement the author's unique gift for story-telling, nineteen outstanding artists--including Victor Ambrus, Carol Barker, Shirley Tourret, Robin Lawrie, and Marilyn Day--have been chosen to illustrate the tales. They have produced a stunning selection of imaginative color illustrations, ensuring this superb book will be treasured by children everywhere.

Dreams of Dark and Light: The Great Short Fiction


Tanith Lee - 1986
    Dreams of Dark and Light. Sauk City: Arkham House, [1986]. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 507 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket.Publication of The Birthgrave in 1975 heralded a new and brilliant luminary in the firmament of modem fantasy. Ostensibly a sword-and-sorcery epic in the tradition of Robert E. Howard, this novel about a youthful heroine with incipient psychic powers astounded readers with its striking originality and intense emotional impact. Tanith Lee today is one of the most versatile and respected writers of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, and DREAMS OF DARK AND LIGHT represents a massive midcareer retrospective of her achievements over the previous decade.Here are unforgettable tales of werewolves that prowl chateaux, an Earthwoman in exile on a distant planet, demons that inhabit bodies of the living dead, a race of vampiric creatures who prey upon a cursed castle, and many other works of exotic vision, mythic science fiction, and contemporary horror. Also included are two stories that have received the World Fantasy Award, "Elle est Trois, (La Mort)" and "The Gorgon," making DREAMS OF DARK AND LIGHT a distinguished one volume library of myth-weaving at its most eloquent and evocative.Although acclaimed as the "Princess Royal of Heroic Fantasy," Tanith Lee has long since transcended genre conventions to create a body of work of remarkable psychological depth and artistic distinction. In her imaginative sympathy with characters, human or otherwise, Lee remains unexcelled in the portrayal of deeply felt emotions. Her stories explore many of the most significant themes in twentieth-century literature - life and death, coming of age, the nature of good and evil, love in all its manifestations. And she remains, above all, one of the great natural storytellers working in the English language ... Tanith Lee truly has become the Scheherazade of our time.

Short Stories and Poems


Edgar Allan Poe - 1986
    -- Booklist Includes The Tell-Tale Heart; The Cask of Amontillado; The Masque of the Red Death; Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar; The Black Cat; The Raven; Annabel Lee; Ulalume; and The Bells.

Russian Lacquer, Legends and Fairy Tales


Lucy Maxym - 1986
    

The Twelve Dancing Princesses and Other Tales from Grimm


Jacob Grimm - 1986
    A collection of fourteen fairy-tales, including: The Twelve Dancing Princesses; Cinderella; Thousandfurs; The Donkey; The Mongoose; Hansel and Gretel; The Spirit in the Bottle; One-eye, Two-eyes, Three Eyes; Iron Hans; The Nixie of the Mill Pond; Jorinda and Joringel; The Golden Bird; The Three Little Men in the Wood; Snow White.

Michael Hague's World of Unicorns


Michael Hague - 1986
    This is a pop-up book containing Hague's enchanting illustrations of unicorns and fairies.

The Best of the Andrew Lang Fairy Tale Book


Andrew Lang - 1986
    

Arab Folktales


Inea Bushnaq - 1986
    Out of alleys of Cairo and Bedouin tents, from the Moroccan laborers and Syrian peasants, this collection of 130 tales comes from Arab worlds from North Africa to the Holy Land.

The Little People's Pageant of Cornish Legends


Eric Quayle - 1986
    Here are giants, little people, witches, devils, an outrageously naughty imp and a beautiful mermaid who enchants a handsome young Cornishman. Michael Foreman's evocative watercolors perfectly capture the wild splendor of the Cornish landscape and its ancient echo of magic and mystery.

Sleeping Beauty


Jane Yolen - 1986
    

The Ugly Duckling


Ken Forsse - 1986