The Oxford Treasury of Fairy Tales

By Geraldine McCaughrean

Book Overview

This glorious collection includes all your favourite traditional stories, such as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Rumplestiltskin, along with some less well-known stories to discover. The book is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0192781286
• ISBN13: 9780192781284
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 1.0" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Storytelling at its best

This is a collection of twenty of the best loved fairy tales, some of them traditional, and some retellings from Andersen.Multi award-winning storyteller, Geraldine McCaughrean, spins the tales with all the skill of her craft, taking the reader directly into the human experience underlying them."Times were hard, harder than the dried bread on Jack's table," brings the setting vividly before a young reader.Her dramatic retellings make the most of familiar stories and introduce children to less familiar tales like "The Three Oranges".This is a handsomely produced book with richly- toned illustrations by Sophie Williams.