This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham.
Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different traditions also make their appearance, including The Three Bears and Little Red Hiding Hood.
Other Fairy Tales include:
- St George of Merrie England
- Tom-Tit-Tot
- The Golden Snuff-Box
- Tattercoats
- The Three Feathers
- Lazy Jack
- The Three Sillies
- The Golden Ball
- The Two Sisters
- The Laidly Worm
- Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse
- The Black Bull of Norroway
- Catskin
- Nix Naught Nothing
- Mr and Mrs Vinegar
- The True History of Sir Thomas Thumb
- Henny-Penny
- The Three Heads of the Well
- Mr Fox
- The Old Woman and Her Pig
- The Wee Bannock
- How Jack Went Out to Seek His Fortune
- The Bogey-Beast
- Childe Rowland
- The Wise Men of Gotham
- Caporushes
- The Red Ettin
- The Fish and the Ring
- Lawkamercyme
- Master of All Masters
- Molly Whuppie and the Double-Faced Giant
- The Ass, the Table and the Stick
- The Well of the World’s End
- The Rose Tree
Flora Annie Steel (1847- 1929) was an English writer who spent most of her adult life living in, and writing about, India. In later life she moved to Scotland, where her interest in folk tales led her to publish 'English Fairy Tales', in conjunction with the famous illustrator, Arthur Rackham.
Arthur Rackham (1867 - 1939) was an English illustrator responsible for the pictures in a huge number of classic children's titles, many of which feature in the Wordsworth list. 'Mother Goose' was a collection of traditional nursery rhymes which he edited and illustrated.