Nowadays The Blue Fairy Book, The Green Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, and so on, right through the list of colors, are collector’s items that fetch high prices at book auctions. From China and India, Persia and Arabia, France, Britain and Spain, Germany, Russia and the Netherlands, and, in fact, from anywhere where generations of people have told their children fairy tales at bedtime-which means practically everywhere! They were the Andrew Lang fairy books, which Lang had compiled from stories that he had collected from all over the world. Among the latter I was delighted to discover some that I knew well, for I had once had a whole set of these myself, only to lose them when a London warehouse, in which most of our family belongings had been stored after my father died, caught fire and burned to the ground. It was springtime and I was staying with a school friend whose parents owned an old manor house that was full of pictures and books: books for grown-ups and books for children. This story was written many moons ago under an apple tree in an orchard in Kent, which is one of England’s prettiest counties.
Summary: At her christening, a princess is given the gift of “ordinariness” by a fairy,Īnd the consequences of that eventually take her to a nearby palace where, as theįourteenth assistant kitchen maid, she meets the prince for her. The ordinary princess / written and illustrated by M.M. THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS HAS CATALOGED THE VIKING EDITION AS FOLLOWS: New edition published simultaneously by Viking and Puffin Books,ĭivisions of Penguin Putnam Books for Young Readers, 2002 Penguin Books Ltd, Registered Offices: Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Englandįirst published in the United States of America by Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1980 Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd, 182-190 Wairau Road, Auckland 10, New Zealand
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