Laboulaye's Fairy Book

by Édouard Laboulaye

There was once a green book, deliciously thick, with gilt-edged pages and the name of the author in gilt script on the front cover. Like an antique posy ring, it was a "box of jewels, shop of rarities"; it was a veritable Pandora's box, and if you laid warm, childish hands upon it and held it pressed close to your ear, you could hear, as Pandora did, soft rustlings, murmurings, flutterings, and whisperings from the fairy folk within. For this was a fairy book—Edouard Laboulaye's "Tales," and its heroes and heroines became first the daily companions, and then the lifetime possession, of the two little girls to whom it belonged.

Genres: Fairy Tales

100 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1867

About the author

Édouard René Lefebvre Laboulaye

Reviews

[Jennifer Booth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very vivid

I loved with likable charters and a kind prince. It little similar to the wizard of oz in imagination and scope.

[PC · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not bad

Not bad

It's a nice diversion, but some of the tales need tweaking for today's sensibilities if you're going to read it to your little ones. a couple, I think, would make a nice base for a Disney tale.

[Joanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are fsiry tales in all their politically incorrect glory. Only the Christian girl can wash the stain out of the shirt.....