Favorite Fairy Tales Told in France

Favorite Fairy Tales #1

by Virginia Haviland, Victor G. Ambrus (Illustrator)

Contents include: The Twelve Dancing Princesses / Puss in Boots / Beauty and the Beast / The Sleeping Beauty In the Wood / Drakestail.

Genres: France, Childrens, Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Folklore, Classics

94 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1959

About the author

Virginia Haviland was for many years the Director of the Children's Literature Center at the Library of Congress and was also author of more than two dozen books. She was graduated from Cornell University, and for her dedication to children's literature, she was awarded the Regina Medal in 1976.

Reviews

[Melki · Rating 3 out of 5]

All but one tale (Drakestail) in this collection were VERY familiar, and once again, there is no attempt to connect these particular stories to France. Though fine retellings, they could have been set anywhere.

[JF · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think the author did a fair job, but the stories are creeping.

Beauty and the Beast - beast value is on how much money he has and ignores the girl all day except for 9pm in the evening when he asks her to marry him and when she obviously says "no" he sulks alone for another 24 hours.

Sleeping Beauty - gross

[Miss Manekofsky · Rating 3 out of 5]

I couldn't resist checking this out and reading it...the fun things you find while weeding a collection.

[nhi · Rating 3 out of 5]

*3.5 stars
A pretty cute book filled with fairy tales from France. I wished it was more detailed. A good book to read to kids at night.

[Alex Putman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Great stories, but another book would show them much better than this one