The Golden Bird
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"The Golden Bird" is a fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm about the pursuit of a golden bird by a gardener's three sons. The Grimms included it as Tale 57 in the very first volume of their fam
The gardener's youngest son sights the Golden Bird in the king's garden
The prince rides on the fox's back. Illustration by George Cruikshank for Grimm's Goblins, by Edgar Taylor (1823).
The Langs' Fairy Books
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The Langs' Fairy Books are a series of 25 collections of true and fictional stories for children published between 1889 and 1913 by Andrew Lang and Leonora Blanche Lang, a married couple. The best kno
The Golden Bird
…collected by Paul Sébillot in Littérature orale de la Haute-Bretagne, is called Le Merle d'or (The Golden Blackbird). Andrew Lang included that variant in The Green Fairy Book (1892). In The Golden Blackbird, the gardener's son set out because the doctors have prescribed the golden blackbird for their ill father. The two older…
Rumpelstiltskin from The Blue Fairy Book, illustrated by Henry J. Ford.
"The Crown Returns to the Queen of the Fishes". Illustration by H. J. Ford for Andrew Lang's The Orange Fairy Book
Folio Society editions of the Coloured Fairy Books
First edition, 1894