An excellent book that I received for Christmas last week. I was especially excited to get one with all the old illustrations. It's definitely one of the better books in Lang's collection. The illustrations are beautiful and the fanciful descriptions add to the charm.My favorite stories:- The Blue Bird- The Story of Caliph Stork- Rosanella- Fairy Gifts (this one's hilarious, and I like that it's a rare princess story without romance)- Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla- Heart of Ice- T...

I had to read a selection of fairytales from this book for class! I will definitely be checking out the rest of these tales. Below is a list of the fairytales I've read with my ratings of each. Rosanella: 4.25/5 stars Prince Narcissus and the Princess Potentilla: 4/5 stars Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine: 4/5 stars The Enchanted Snake: 4/5 stars Prince Vivien and the Princess Placida: 3/5 stars

Another collection of fairy tales, this time forty-six ones, varying in length and enjoyment.

The Blue Bird - 5/5The Half-Chick - 3/5The Story Of Caliph Stork - 4/5The Enchanted Watch - 4/5Rosanella - 5/5Sylvain And Jocosa - 4/5Fairy Gifts - 4/5Prince Narcissus And The Princess Potentilla - 4/5Prince Featherhead And The Princess Celandine 4/5The Three Little Pigs 3/5Heart Of Ice 3/5The Enchanted Ring 3/5The Snuff-Box -4/5The Golden Blackbird 4/5The Little Soldier 4/5The Magic Swan 3/5The Dirty Shepherdess 4/5The Enchanted Snake 4/5Little One-Eye, Little Two-Eyes, And Little Three-Eyes -

3 1/2 Stars. Every time I read an Andrew Lang Colored Fairy book I discover new tales I'd never read or heard if before! Although this collection is not as good as some of his other books it's still worth reading if you are a fairy tale geek like I am. I particularly enjoyed some of the lesser known Grimms tales that are in this collection!

This one was front-loaded with a few literary ones I didn't much like. But it has a number I quite like, including some I had forgotten about. The Golden Blackbird I remembered but not The Little Soldier -- which combines plotlines I've seen from other tales, with a bit more sense than I've sometimes seen them -- with a twist I've seen elsewhere and forgot I saw here. We have a whole bunch of less usual Grimms, such as The White Snake and Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle. Seemed to me to be spread o...

Back to reporting out the notes I took on my e-reader!Preface: Re: "This is the third, and probably the last of the Fairy Books of many colours." Ahahaha. Good try, Andrew. Re: "There are grown up people now who say that the stories are not good for children, because they are not true, because [...] but probably you who read the tales know very well how much is true and how much is only make believe, and I never yet heard of a child who killed a very tall man merely because Jack killed the giant...

The tales were fun. Lang makes a big deal about how they were often morality tales. Some of them are morally questionable, but it's still fun to think about it. The edition I had almost seemed like it had been printed from Gutenberg. And I am a huge fan of Gutenberg, but this edition's illustrations were blurry(and I love that etched Romantic style) and the paragraphs ran together(one lasted a whole page) and I know they weren't like that originally. It would have been better on Gutenberg.

This whole set of ...(colour) fairybooks is wonderfuL. I love the illustrations.

There is nothing like a fairy tale and Lang’s Green Fairy Book brings together some wonderful stories. There is the slightly whimsical heroes, the murderous villains, the romantic leads, the fierce protector, the wizened mentor and a stack of other characters. What counts is that good always triumphs no matter how many times the hero is lied, tricked, killed, maimed they will always be fully restored and find true love. If only life was so

Beautiful edition with some of my chidhood fairytales in it.The illustrations are lovely but for me they are not in the right order: the illustration of a tale sometimes appears some stories later and I really hate this.

42 tales from around the world, Germany Grimm, France de Caylus, Fenelon, Kletke, D'Aulnoy - The Blue Bird, Sylvain and Jocosa, Prince Narcissus, The Three Little Pigs, the Half-Chick - feature monsters, giants, and more.What did I think:first off I want to say that I actually have this as part of a bind up off all of the Color Fairy Books by Andrew Lang as a kindle book, so far of the 12 I'm slowly making my way though it I have only read 3 of them , this one which is book 3 and I listened

I first encountered the Lang collection, often called the Colored Fairy Books because of their titles (Blue, Olive, Crimson, etc.) when I was in elementary school. I enjoyed them because they were so different from the sanitized, prissy princess, modern versions, and I'm happy to see them now available (for very cheap) in Kindle format. We forget that fairy tales were not originally for children and were not created as vehicles for which to market toys and Happy Meals to toddlers. They were oral...

As expected, this installment of Andrew Lang's Fairy Books series is full of timeless stories(though some are more memorable than others), nicely retold by Lang and beautifully illustrated by H.J. Ford. Here are my favorite stories from this collection: -The Blue Bird -The Half-Chick -Rosanella -Fairy Gifts -Prince Featherhead and the Princess Celandine - The Three Little Pigs -Heart of Ice (this one has a more interesting premise than your typical prince-and-princess fairy tale) -The Enchanted

The Green Fairy Book contains 42 tales, if I counted correctly. The ones which you will immediately recognize are The Three Little Pigs and The Story of the Three Bears. However, these stories aren't always the way that you remember them. Another one, which was my favorite, was The Fisherman and His Wife. You might recognize this tale, and you might not, but it is about a poor fisherman who catches a flounder who claims to be a prince. He decides to release it but the wife berates him saying he

ENGLISH: In his prolog, Lang says that "old people, long, long ago," liked fairy tales because they were like children and believed in witches, talking animals, magic rings that made people invisible, and so forth; but then, "as the world became grown-up," they stopped believing in those things, and fairy tales would have been forgotten, except that grannies remembered them and told them to their grandchildren.Lang seems to forget that the climax of the belief in witches took place in the sevent...

I love most of the first several stories. The characters are interesting, plots clever, magic enchanting, humor effective, and endings satisfying:The Blue BirdThe Story of Caliph StorkRosanellaSylvain and JocosaFairy GiftsPrince NarcissusPrince FickleHok Lee and the DwarfsPrince VivienOthers started out holding my interest, but either became muddled or the hero/heroine did something I could not sympathize with (like in the Enchanted Ring, when the hero drowns everyone, or Puddocky, when the dogs...

This book was a gift from my 3rd Grade teacher and I read it over and over through the years. Its since been lost to me, but I can remember spending many hours reading this book. I loved it and if it was in my possession I have no doubt that I would continue reading it. Like Grimm's Fairy Tales, I never tired of this book. Full of delightful stories!!

I had a lot of favorites in this one :)

My favorite Fairy Book so far, with less-familiar stories than the Red and Blue.