Faery Tales

Carol Ann Duffy, Tomislav Tomic

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9780571314294
• Edition: 0

O nce upon a time, there was a rich merchant who had three daughters. The girls were just as clever as they were bella and none more so than the youngest, whose name was Beauty.

Disappear to faraway lands of wicked witches, evil monsters and brave heroines in Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's stunning collection of fairy tales. Including her beautiful and haunting retellings of the Grimm classics Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and the Pied Piper, as well as other tales from around the world, and new stories of her own, this book will make you think again about once upon a time . . .

With ethereal illustrations by Tommi Tomislav, this uncommonly beautiful book is a very special introduction to - or reminder of - many classic fairy tales.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Landing Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Blue Beard
• The Husband Who Was to Mind the House for the Day
• The Three Wishes
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Emperor’s New Clothes
• Toby and the Wolf
• The Juniper Tree
• The Girl and the North Wind
• Rats and the Chinese Zodiac
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• The Stolen Childhood
• A Little Girl
• The Maiden with No Hands
• Tattercoats
• Invisible
• Nine Words
• Wooden Maria
• The Squire’s Bride
• The Lost Happy Endings
• Hansel and Gretel
• The Golden Goose
• Ashputtel
• A Riddling Tale
• The Mouse, the Bird and the Sausage
• Iron Hans
• The Lady and the Lion
• The Magic Table, the Gold-Donkey and the Cudgel in the Sack
• Little Red-Cap
• Two Households
• The Fox and the Geese
• Clever Hans
• Knoist and His Three Sons
• Sweet Porridge
• The Hare and the Hedgehog
• Travelling
• Snow White
• The Ungrateful Son
• The Wise Servant
• The Musicians of Bremen
• The Golden Key
• Rumpelstiltskin
• Fair Katrinelje
• Brother Scamp
• About the Author
• Copyright