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Eric Kincaid's Book of Fairy Tales
Adapted by Lucy Kincaid. Illustrated by Eric Kincaid. Brimax Books 1987. A4 Glossy hardcover large print.
The stories are:
HANSEL AND GRETEL
TOWN MOUSE AND COUNTRY MOUSE
THUMBELINA
THE WIZARD OF OZ
CINDERELLA
PINOCCHIO
THE LITTLE MERMAID
ALADDIN
THE SNOW QUEEN
The stories are:
HANSEL AND GRETEL
TOWN MOUSE AND COUNTRY MOUSE
THUMBELINA
THE WIZARD OF OZ
CINDERELLA
PINOCCHIO
THE LITTLE MERMAID
ALADDIN
THE SNOW QUEEN
205 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
About the author
Eric Kincaid
217 books11 followersBorn in London in 1931, Eric studied illustration and design at Gravesend School of Art where Peter Blake was a contemporary and Quentin Crisp one of the life models. After two years national service and then working in advertising Eric became a comic strip artist where he drew the last Dan Dare story for the Eagle.
In 1971 Eric was offered the chance to fulfill his real ambition to illustrate children’s books when the publishing company, Brimax Books asked him to illustrate a book of Nursery Rhymes. There followed a long and successful relationship with Brimax who commissioned over 100 books from Eric over the next 30 years. These included Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, Aesop’s Fables and anthologies of poetry and nursery rhymes. Eric went on regular book signing tours of America and Canada and regularly attended the Frankfurt Book Fair. His titles have appeared in 14 languages and world-wide sales exceed 8 million copies.
Eric now lives in Dorset where he settled in 1990.
In 1971 Eric was offered the chance to fulfill his real ambition to illustrate children’s books when the publishing company, Brimax Books asked him to illustrate a book of Nursery Rhymes. There followed a long and successful relationship with Brimax who commissioned over 100 books from Eric over the next 30 years. These included Wind in the Willows, Peter Pan, The Jungle Book, Oliver Twist, Alice in Wonderland, Aesop’s Fables and anthologies of poetry and nursery rhymes. Eric went on regular book signing tours of America and Canada and regularly attended the Frankfurt Book Fair. His titles have appeared in 14 languages and world-wide sales exceed 8 million copies.
Eric now lives in Dorset where he settled in 1990.
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December 14, 2017
Beautifully illustrated fairy tales that are extremely simplified from the original stories. They are written for beginning readers to read on their own and not recommended for reading aloud.
Example: “The little mermaid visits the bay every night. She watches the prince. She cannot go to him because she cannot walk. She has no feet. Every night she is more sad.”
At the end of each story there are illustrations to go back and find and an invitation to use them to tell the story in your own words and then draw your own pictures.
Example: “The little mermaid visits the bay every night. She watches the prince. She cannot go to him because she cannot walk. She has no feet. Every night she is more sad.”
At the end of each story there are illustrations to go back and find and an invitation to use them to tell the story in your own words and then draw your own pictures.
April 5, 2023
Oh how I loved this as a child I used to put tracing paper over the pictures and try and draw them because it’s beautifully illustrated. The stories are the slightly darker versions of fairytales rather than the Disney versions. They are great for first-time readers, and it is probably one of the books that got me in to reading
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