Retellings of eighteen tales originating in the Mediterranean about kings and princesses, rich men and poor, wizards and dwarfs, fairies, ogres, and fools.
Ruth Manning-Sanders, youngest daughter of an English minister, describes her childhood as “extraordinarily happy. . . with kind and understanding parents and any amount of freedom.” She read omnivorously, and she and her two sisters wrote and acted their own plays. A Shakespeare scholar at Manchester University, she later married Cornish artist George Manning-Sanders. They began married life in a horse drawn caravan, and traveled to all parts of the British Isles. Mrs. Manning-Sanders has collected folk and fairy stories from around the world and she published more than 90 books during her lifetime.
I'm collecting the Ruth Manning-Sanders "Book of..." series. And while this one does not fit with my collection, I found it for a really good deal on Amazon and decided to give it a go. So glad I did! This was an excellent collection, chock full of good stories, and a lot of fun to read (especially when I was stuck at home sick!) Would recommend.