The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales

<b>Now back in print a beautifully illustrated collection of twelve reimagined fairy tales including classics like Beauty and the Beast and literary tales like Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince.</b><br><br>Alice and Martin Provensen were one of the most talented husband-and-wife author-illustrator teams of the twentieth century. A long-out-of-print cult classic first published 50 years ago <i>The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales</i> is a treasury of their illustrations accompanied by fairy tales from authors such as A. A. Milne Hans Christian Andersen and Oscar Wilde. Here too are clever retellings and newly imagined tales: refined old favorites like Arthur Rackham&#146;s &#147;Beauty and the Beast&#148; feminist revisions like Elinor Mordaunt&#146;s &#147;The Prince and the Goose Girl&#148; and sensitive stories by literary stylists like Henry Beston&#146;s &#147;The Lost Half-Hour&#148; and Katharine Pyle&#146;s &#147;The Dreamer.&#148; Full of magic ingenuity and humor <i>The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales</i> is a witty modern descendant of <i>Grimm&#146;s Fairy Tales</i> and a classic in its own right sure to be beloved by a new generation.