Wordsworth Children’s Classics: English Fairy Tales

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Flora Annie Steel was an English writer, who lived in British India for 22 years. She was noted especially for books set in the Indian sub-continent or connected with it. Her novel On the Face of the Waters describes incidents in the Indian Mutiny.

This book contains not only over 40 fairy tales, such as "Jack and the Beanstalk", "The Babes in the Woods", but stories from different traditions also make an appearance, including "The Three Bears" and "Little Red Riding Hood". This book contains over forty of the best-loved fairy stories, retold by Flora Annie Steel, and beautifully illustrated by Arthur Rackham. Favourites such as Jack the Giant-killer, Jack and the Beanstalk, Dick Whittington, The Three Little Pigs and The Babes in the Wood are all here among many others, but stories from different traditions also make their appearance, including The Three Bears and Little Red Hiding Hood.

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