Climb the beanstalk with Jack, chase the mischievous Gingerbread Man, and join the prince's search for the mysterious beauty who ran away from the ball but left her glass slipper behind. Children will enter a timeless fairy tale world with this illustrated treasury and its bonus attraction, a free MP... read more
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Climb the beanstalk with Jack, chase the mischievous Gingerbread Man, and join the prince's search for the mysterious beauty who ran away from the ball but left her glass slipper behind. Children will enter a timeless fairy tale world with this illustrated treasury and its bonus attraction, a free MP3 download narration of the stories. Readers and listeners of all ages will delight in these atmospheric retellings of "Beauty and the Beast," "Tom Thumb," "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Three Bears," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Peter Rabbit," and many other classics. Drawn from publications of the 1920s, these favorite fables feature winsome pictures by a popular artist of the era.
Reprint of selected stories from The Real Storybook and Once Upon a Time, Rand McNally & Co., Chicago, 1927 and 1921.
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