Pink Fairy Book: The Cat's Elopement, How the Dragon Was Tricked, The Goblin and the Grocer, The House in the Wood, Uraschimataro and the Turtle, The Slaying of the Tanuki, The Flying Trunk, The Snow-Man, The Shirt-Collar, The Princess in the Chest...

by Andrew Lang

All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children. The Japanese tell them, the Chinese, the Red Indians by their camp fires, the Eskimo in their dark dirty winter huts. The Kaffirs of South Africa tell them, and the modern Greeks, just as the old Egyptians did, when Moses had not been many years rescued out of the bulrushes. The Germans, French, Spanish, Italians, Danes, Highlanders tell them also, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book, if he examines and compares. But the Japanese tales will probably be new to the young student; the Tanuki is a creature whose acquaintance he may not have made before...

• ISBN10: 1471000613
• ISBN13: 9781471000614
• Publish Date: 8 December 2011
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Imprint: Lulu.com
• Format: eBook (OEB)
• Language: English