English Fairy Tales

A classic collection of English Fairy Tales,illustrated in colourFairy tales are written to both entertain and educate. Published in the shadow of the First World WarF. A. Steel’s retellings of forty-one English fairy tales is a classic collection of storiesranging from the familiar – ‘Jack and the Beanstalk”Little Red Riding-Hood’ and ‘The Three Little Pigs’ – to the perhaps less well known – ‘The Black Bull of Norroway”Nix Nought Nothing’ and ‘The Red Ettin’. Originally published in 1918it reflects the nationalistic concerns of the period. Steel takes the reader on a journeyfrom Cornwall to Bamborough Castle via a palace by the seaas well as high into the skywhere a giant lives. These magical tales are brought to life by one of the best-known illustrators of the timeArthur Rackham.