Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in great condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Wicked enchanters a magic potion comical kings and a fearful Tsar; bejewelled palaces and abandoned princesses are all in this beautiful and unusual collection of fairy tales which have of course birds as their central theme. Tessa Haddon has wherever possible gone back to the original sources for these stories but she has given them a vitality and freshness sometimes lacking in older versions. Many readers will be familiar with The Wild Swans The Firebird and The Bluebird but almost all the others are little known. They have the ingredients of the best classic fairy stories and some of them particularly The Caliph Stork The Crow Peri and The King of the Sparrows have a charm and humour beautifully matched by the illustrations.