Treasury of Fairy Tales 1986 Illustrated Hardcover Book

Treasury of Fairy Tales with Classic Illustrations 1986 Vintage Illustrated Hardcover with Dust-jacket Book. Slight warping of pages and stickers on inside cover as shown.

"A Treasury of Fairy Tales is a collection of all time favourite children's tales retold for the modern child by Michael Foss. The stories of Hans Christian Andersen and the Brothers Grimm, although classics of the genre, are often found to be rather long-winded for the modern child (and the modern parent reading a bedtime story!). In this volume, Michael Foss has re-written these stories so that none is longer than 2,000 words, while at the same time retaining all the original flavour of these old favourites.

Classic stories such as Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella are accompanied in A Treasury of Fairy Tales by equally classic illustrations. Nearly every master of the form is represented, including Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Kay Nielsen and Warwick Goble. The illustrations, most in full colour, are reproduced to exacting standards which show them in their original beauty.

A Treasury of Fairy Tales recreates a lost world of children's books. It is a book full of joy for the child and nostalgia for the parent."