The Twelve Dancing Princesses

By Arthur Quiller-Couch

Book Overview

Brilliant color illustrations complement a noted folklorist's masterful retellings of traditional fairy tales in this splendid hardcover edition. Quiller-Couch, a distinguished Cambridge don, recounts... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0517675846
• ISBN13: 9780517675847
• Release Date: December 1988
• Publisher: Portland House, NY
• Length: 24 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Gorgeous, romantic, and dreamlike rococo inspired illustrations.

This book is (mostly) a feast for the eyes, and was my introduction to Kay Nielsen as an artist! Unfortunately there is a racist caricature in one of the stories, The Twelve Dancing Princesses. This is in terrible taste and marred one of the most beautiful panels in the book. The stories are all classic folk/fairy tales, retold in Arthur Quiller-Couch’s very 1920’s “nice gams, toots” voice. The fables all have nice, standard moral messages for young kids, but I’d definitely take care to turn the caricature into a teachable moment.