Steel retells the old tales of England in a brisk, homely voice, beginning with St. George and the enchantress Kalyb. The book includes The Story of the Three Bears, Tom-Tit-Tot, The Golden Snuff-Box, Tattercoats, Lazy Jack, Jack the Giant-Killer, The Three Sillies, The Laidly Worm and the nursery chant of Titty Mouse and Tatty Mouse.
Illustrated by Arthur Rackham, it makes a handsome companion to Joseph Jacobs’s better-known collection. Download the free EPUB.