Folk & Fairy Tales

by Ruth Manning-Sanders, Robin Jacques (Illustrator)

Folk and Fairy Tales is a 1978 anthology of 25 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. In fact, the book is mostly a collection of tales published in previous Manning-Sanders anthologies.

Contents:
My lord bag of rice (Japan)
Merman Rosmer (Scotland)
The old witch (England)
The skipper and the dwarfs (Jutland)
Something wonderful (Finland)
Selim and the Snake Queen (Greek Isles)
Jon and his brothers (French Canada)
The monster with seven heads (Madagascar)
The giant who had no heart in his body (Norway)
The little tailor and the three dogs (Germany)
The silver penny (Hungary)
Vasilissa most lovely (Russia)
Fin M'Coul and Cucullin (Ireland)
King Josef (Czechoslovakia)
Long, Broad and Sharpsight (Bohemia)
The Knights of the the Fish (Spain)
The girl in the basket (Italy)
The monster in the mill (Macedonia)
The lost prince (Iceland) --
Lilla Rosa (Sweden)
Smoke bones (North America (Indian))
The magic roots (South America)
The sailor and the devil (Holland)
Sausages (Transylvania)
The caribous wife (Alaska)

Genres: Childrens

253 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1978

About the author

Ruth Manning-Sanders, youngest daughter of an English minister, describes her childhood as “extraordinarily happy. . . with kind and understanding parents and any amount of freedom.” She read omnivorously, and she and her two sisters wrote and acted their own plays. A Shakespeare scholar at Manchester University, she later married Cornish artist George Manning-Sanders. They began married life in a horse drawn caravan, and traveled to all parts of the British Isles.
Mrs. Manning-Sanders has collected folk and fairy stories from around the world and she published more than 90 books during her lifetime.

Reviews

[Evie Pey · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a lovely hardback book I bought from a car boot sale. I love that the good always win and baddies get their comeuppance. Just brilliant.

[Renetta Neal · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book as a child and have re-discovered my friends in there. It shows me just how impactful upon a young mind stories can be as I recognise many of the reasons I have made different life choices to those I grew up with :-)