This one, I think, has more weak tales than the earlier ones, especially since many of them are other kinds of folk tales. Some are very good; I particularly mention ""The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples," "Jesper who Herded Hares," and "The Frog."

This is a wonderful collection of fairy and folk tales from around the world. Professor Lurie is quite a story teller in the flesh. I was privileged and had a blast when I took one of her courses in at Cornell - "An Analysis of Children's Literature." She was spell binding during class discussions a

True rating: 4.5 stars.

As usual with Lang's Fairy Books, this was a very enjoyable collection of fairy tales from around the world. Most here will be unfamiliar to a reader (as they come from Japan, Serbia, Africa, Lithuania, etc.), but the plots, characters, and themes are those of fairy tales ever

''Stories that have been inherited by our earliest civilised ancestors, who really believed that beasts and trees and stones can talk if they choose, and behave kindly or unkindly. The stories are full of the oldest ideas of ages when science did not exist and magic took the place of science.''

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Some were enjoyable most were repetitive.

This is possibly my favourite from the Andrew Lang Fairy Books. At least it contains two of my favourite stories: "The Girl who Pretended to be a Boy" and "The History of Dwarf Long Nose". It is very surprising that the first of these should have made it into a book for children at all back in 1910

[2.5]

This is a collection of short fairytale/fable/mythical tales set in apparently different places of apparently different types of characters.

[edit: I just read the Foreword which I didn't before and it mentions influences of places such as Slavic, Japanese and Portugal
Aaand I just read the Pref

This was the first anthology by Andrew Lang I read, and after doing so I was hooked. I marvelled at how uniquely told all of the tales within this collection are, some are known and others much more obscure. I find this more of an adult fascination that arose in me for the need that was hardly taken

In the preface of The Violet Fairy Book, Andrew Lang's seventh in the series, he seems quite annoyed at certain "ladies" who persist in the belief that he is the author, rather than editor of the stories. Before you get too excited that means he will for once provide thorough credit for his sources,

Every story in this collection is a delight. My favorites:

A Tale of the Tontlawald
Stan Bolovan
The Lute Player
The Underground Workers
The Maiden With the Wooden Helmet
Story of the Young Man Who Would Have His Eyes Opened