TALES OF FOLK AND FAIRIES: An Eclectic collection of 15 illustrated Folk and Fairy Tales from around the world
About this ebook
Herein are 15 tales and children’s stories from around the world - Scotland, Louisiana, Scandinavia, Serbia, Arabia, Russia, Persia and Bengal. There is even a Cossack tale, a Norse tale and a Hindu tale.
Of note is the tale THE HISTORY OF ALI COGIA from the Arabian Nights and the Scandinavian tale of THE MAGIC PIPE. Importantly, as in any good collection of fairy tales and folklore, there is also the story of THE TRIUMPH OF TRUTH, as the truth will always be told in the end. Unusually there is the Russian tale of THE FROG PRINCESS - usually such marchen have a Frog Prince as well. But you will have to read this story to see if there is a happy ending. And what would an anthology of fairy tales and folklore be without a story about fairies. The volume is completed with the story of DAME PRIDGETT AND THE FAIRIES which carries a warning to all Never Try And Outsmart A Fairy!
Nowhere in this volume will you find a perennial favourite, which makes this volume even more interesting and unique, for these stories have not been seen or read for many a year, except, maybe, by members of our older generations who may have had them read to them by their Grandparents when they were children.
So sit back and enjoy this eclectic volume of fairy tales and folklore from around the world and know that in buying this volume you will have also donated to a charity somewhere in the world, for the publisher donates 33% of the net profit from every copy sold to charities.
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About the author
Katharine Pyle (November 23, 1863 – February 19, 1938) was an American artist, poet, and children's writer.
Born in Wilmington, Delaware, the youngest offspring of William Pyle and Margaret (Painter), she was the sister of author and artist Howard Pyle.[1] She was educated at the Women's Industrial School and the Drexel Institute, then studied at the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the New York Art Students' League. She lived in Wilmington her whole life, except four years in New York during the 1890s.[2]
Her art was exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893.[3] She found work as an illustrator no later than 1895, but her first major success occurred in 1898 with The Counterpane Fairy.[2] Over the course of her career she wrote over 30 books and illustrated and retold the works of others. Her works appeared in the Ladies' Home Journal and Harper's Bazaar.[4]
