Tales Collection (page 13)

Aurelius and Dorigen, Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales: The Franklins Tale. The squire Aurelius, and Dorigen, with whom Aurelius is in love

Emelye, Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales: The Knights Tale. Emelye gathering flowers

Rioter, Chaucer, Canterbury Tales
Canterbury Tales: The Pardoners Tale. Carrying the bag of gold he has just collected from under the tree, along with the wine he has poisoned

Fairy Tales of Spring - Red Riding Hood by Pauline Baynes
Red Riding Hood illustrated by Pauline Baynes, one of four fairy tales reflecting the seasons. Little Red Riding Hood is distracted in her mission to take a basket to grandmother by the flowers in

Emperors New Clothes - Princess and the Pea
Illustrations of two well-known Fairy Tales: The Emperors New Clothes (left) and The Princess and the Pea (right)

Hansel and Gretel - Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - illustrations by Malcolm Greensmith to these two classic Fairy Tales

A Kingdom for a Night by Charles Robinson
A colourful, busy scene showing a selection of fairies, elves and woodland folk bringing various gifts and toys to " two little mortals" who are sitting in the highest branches of a tree

Morocco - Storyteller
A Moroccan storyteller entertaining a group of seated children before a large pavilion tent

The Christmas Party Up to Date: Fairy Tales by Broadcast b
Christmas parties this year will possess a new and fascinating attraction, both for young and old, in the shape of the latest wonder of wireless telephony

Telling Fairy Tales
A man reads from a book at a large fireplace, the men, women and children around him look suitably entertained

The Power of Imagination
A Grandfather laughs to himself as he reads aloud to his two grandchildren, both of whom have fallen asleep in his arms. The imagined fantasy world of the story unfolds behind him

A Modern Cinderella
A little girl helps a younger child with her shoes or boots, recalling the tale of Cinderella

Hop O my Thumb
The Ogre is tricked into slitting the throats of his seven daughters

Sleeping Beauty / (Crane)
-At last he came to the tower and opened the door of the little room where Rosamond lay

American Indians. Entertaining the Chief
The Chief of the Passamaquoddy Indians entertaining his English guests by telling them tales of his tribes history in a wooded camp on the shore of Lake Utopia

Riding Hood & Wolf / Dore
She meets the wolf in the wood

Hunting in Fairyland
Illustration by H.Folkard entitled Big Game Hunting in Fairyland showing an archer shooting down some rather innocent and horrified looking butterflies

The Sand Fairy / Jacobs
A small girl is either woken up, or helped with her insomnia by a sand fairy who appears in her dormitory unobserved by anyone else

A Fairy Tale by Earnshaw
A strange little man appears as if by magic to the surprise of two medieval types, who look rather strange themselves

Sleeping Beauty Spinning
Princess Beauty discovers the old woman spinning with a spindle and is about to prick her finger and fall into a hundred-year sleep

Puss in Boots & Castle
Puss in Boots points out the magnificent castle amongst the trees, which actually belongs to the ogre

Chaucer, the Franklin
The Franklin depicted in Richard Pynsons edition of the Tales

Poes the Gold Bug
THE GOLD BUG We dug steadily for two hours ; the treasure is discovered

A working fairy dressed in a green smock looks like he has just thought of a very good idea

Fairy Looking in Mirror
A blonde fairy brushes and arranges her long hair as she looks in the looking glass at her dressing table constructed from toadstools

Tiny Tales for Tiny Folk back cover
A child pulls a toy wagon along a garden path alongside a herbaceous border

Tiny Tales for Tiny Folk
Bold and colourful front cover of a childrens book from the 1920s showing two small little girls sat by a herbaceous border in a garden

Thumbkinetta / Thumbelina
Thumbkinetta (Thumbelina in this version) says Yes in answer to the Princes question

Tom Thumb Escapes Mouth
He escapes from the millers mouth

Tom Thumb is Born
The birth of Tom Thumb : his parents are surprised at his diminutive size, unaware of the fairies on their doorstep

Tom Thumb and Cherries
He scares a peasant who discovers him in a bag of cherry stones

Fairy Tale / The Turnip
A man riding on a horse waves to another man who for reasons best known to himself is suspended in a sack from a tree with his head sticking out

Tailor and Giant - 2
THE YOUNG GIANT AND THE TAILOR The giant and the tree-trunk

Tailor and Giant - 1
THE YOUNG GIANT AND THE TAILOR The giant, who has got the tailor in the palm of his hand, inspects him with curiosity

The Wonderful Musician
He demonstrates his skill

Tailor and Giant - 3
THE YOUNG GIANT AND THE TAILOR The tailor fiddles with the bear

Tom Thumb and Furmenty
He falls by accident into the Kings bowl of hot frumenty (a kind of wheat porridge flavoured with cinnamon etc)

The Travelling Musicians
Supper is disturbed by a sudden incursion of animals through the window of the inn

VASILISSA
Vasilissa on her way to visit the Baba Yoga

Tom Thumb and Butterfly
He entertains the court when he rides on the back of a butterfly

Puss in Boots - 2
Puss coaxes rabbits into his bag

Snow Queen (Walton)
Kay and the ice-blocks

Puss in Boots - 6
Happy ending ! The Marquis de Carabas marries the Princess, thanks to Pusss devious and deceitful cunning. All shall live happily ever after !

Puss in Boots - 1
Puss with his young master

Snow Queen (Carse)
Gerda (well wrapped up in a fine winter coat !) finds Kay at last among the icebergs

Telling Fairy Tales 1
Grandmama leaves off her spinning and sits by a roaring fire, telling tales to the children

Puss in Boots - 5
Puss with the ogre who has made his home in the castle of the Marquis de Carabas, but not for much longer thanks to the cats cunning

The Nose by Grimm
- You want to know how my nose got like this ? Well, its a long story

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