One Hundred Favorite Folktales

<p>Amongst the one hundred folktales are such familiar tales as The Three Billy-Goats Gruff Haensel and Gretel Sleeping Beuaty and some perhaps not so familiar The Magic Bird The Goose Girl and The Pancake.</p><p>If you can buy only one fairytale book a year buy this. Why? Because the chooser knows more about the folktales of all countries than anyone else in the world and the choice is the flower of the flock. --New York Times Book Review</p><p>Just relax and enjoy these delightful tales from all over the world--or better yet read them aloud to some of your favorite children. --Quartet</p><p>Should remain the standard tale anthology in English for years to come. --Folklore Forum</p>