This colour fairy book reaches further afield than its predecessors, opening with Japanese stories of a cat’s elopement, a tricked dragon and the slaying of the Tanuki. Alongside them come Andersen’s The Snow Queen, The Fir Tree and The Flying Trunk, and folk tales from Scandinavia and elsewhere in Europe, introduced by Lang’s preface on how alike the world’s nursery tales are.
Good for reading aloud and for comparing how one story changes from country to country. Download the free EPUB.