The Yellow Fairy Book is part of a series known as Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books of Many Colors or

The Yellow Fairy Book is part of a series known as Andrew Lang’s Fairy Books of Many Colors or the Rainbow Fairy Books. Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scottish author and literary critic. His lifelong passion for folklore led him to edit and publish this collection of fairy tales. Though the fairy books have dominated Lang’s literary legacy, he, of course, did not create these stories, and, in fact, he had little to do with adapting them for an audience of English-speaking children. His wife, Leonora “Nora” Blanche Alleyne Lang (1851-1933), was the one who worked with a team (many of whom were also women) to translate the fairy tales from French, German, Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, and Catalan among other languages. Yet her labors seem unrecognized with the absence of her name from the spines and title-pages of this series. This book contains a variety of European folktales and even an Indigenous American tale (“The Boy and the Wolves”). Stories from famous fairy tale writers are represented in the Yellow Fairy Book as well. These include: Story of the Emperor’s New Clothes (Hans Christian Andersen)How to tell a True Princess (aka The Princess and the Pea) (Hans Christian Andersen)Thumbelina (Hans Christian Andersen)Cat and Mouse in Partnership (Brothers Grimm)The Six Swans (Brothers Grimm)Lang’s fairy books also propelled chief illustrator Henry Justice Ford (1860-1941) to fame, and his late Victorian artwork remains indelibly associated with classic fairy tale illustration. Images from: Lang, Andrew, and Leonora Blanche Lang, editors. The Yellow Fairy Book. London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1897.Call number: PR4876 .Y45 1897Catalog record: https://bit.ly/3qM44ro -- source link

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