English Fairy Tales (Puffin Classics)

by Margery Gill (Illustrator), Margery Gill (Illustrator), Joseph Jacobs (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1990

  $3.34

  Selected by 19th century storyteller Joseph Jacobs, this anthology includes both old favorites and little-known stories. Such classics as Tom Thumb and Jack and the Beanstalk are included.

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $4.45

• New

  Hardcover
  1993

  $14.50

  One of the great nineteenth-century folklorists, Joseph Jacobs collected stories from oral sources and made scholarly notes on their origin, but he deliberately recorded them in a plain and direct style which he thought suitable for children and which makes them 'supremely tellable'. First published in 1890, his famous collection includes all the well-known tales, such as Jack and The Beanstalk and Dick Whittington, as well as British variants of stories common to many cultures. The illustrations by John Batten are taken from the first edition.