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Summary
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The Yellow Fairy Book, first published in 1894, contains a wide variety of stories drawn from many sources. Here will be found the traditional princesses, princes and giants, but there is also a profusion of assorted creatures: dragons, crabs, frogs, donkeys and - more unusual - a boy who turns into a wolf. Edited by Andrew Lang.
Contents:
- Cat and Mouse in Partnership
- The Six Swans
- The Dragon of the North
- The Emperor's New Clothes
- The Golden Crab
- The Iron Stove
- The Devil and his Grandmother
- The Cabbage Donkey
- The Little Green Frog
- The Seven-Headed Serpent
- The Grateful Beasts
- The Giants and the Herd-Boy
- The Crow
- Six Men Go Far Together in the Wide World
- The Nixy
- The Glass Mountain
- Fairer-than-a-Fairy
- The Three Brothers
- The Boy and the Wolves, or the Broken Promise
- The Dead Wife
- In the Land of Souls
- The White Duck
- The Witch and her Servants
- The Magic Ring
- The Flower Queen's Daughter
- The Flying Ship
- Snow-Daughter and Fire-Son
- The Story of Old Frost
- The Death of the Sun-Hero
- The Witch, or Baba Yaga
- The Hazel-Nut Child
- Big Claus and Little Claus
- Prince Ring
- The Swineherd
- The Princess on the Pea
- The Blue Mountains
- The Tinder-Box
- The Witch in the Stone Boat
- Thumbelina
- The Nightingale
- Hermod and Hadvor
- The Steadfast Tin-Soldier
- Blockhead-Hans: an Old Story Retold
- The Darning-Needle
Original title: The Yellow Fairy Book
Original languages:
English
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Genre: Fiction→ Children & Young Adult→ Fantasy→ Miniature People
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