The Blue Fairy Book (1889)

37 old and fogotten fairy and folk tales from around the world

In this 3rd volume of his series, Andrew Lang presents 37 fairytales, folklore and legends from around the world. Classic stories like Aladdin, Snow White and Rose Red, Why the Sea is Salt, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Rumpelstiltzkin, Hansel and Grettel, a Voyage to Lilliput and many more less familiar tales as well.

The Blue Fairy Book

Raising Funds for the Temi Charitable Trust

Books Yellow, Red, and Green and Blue,
All true, or just as good as true,
And here's the Blue Book just for YOU!

Hard is the path from A to Z,
And puzzling to a curly head,
Yet leads to Books—Green, Yellow and Red.

For every child should understand
That letters from the first were planned
To guide us into Fairy Land

So labour at your Alphabet,
For by that learning shall you get
To lands where Fairies may be met.

And going where this pathway goes,
You too, at last, may find, who knows?
The Garden of the Singing Rose.

As to whether there are really any fairies or not, that is a difficult question. The Editor. Andrew Lang, never saw any himself, but he knew several people who have seen them - in the Highlands - and heard their music. If ever you are in Nether Lochaber, go to the Fairy Hill, and you may hear the music yourself, as grown-up people have done, but you must go on a fine day........

33% of the publisher’s profit from the sale of this book will be donated to the Temi Charitable Trust in the viallage of Gremi in the province of Kakheti in the Republic of Georgia. ‘Temi’ means ‘community’ in Kartuli, the Georgian language.