Fairy Tales, Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense Verse.
This beautiful anthology will bring many hours of pleasure to children, parents and teachers. Edited by Alice Mills, it contains the well-known and popular nursery rhymes (from 'A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go' to 'Wee Willie Winkie'); fairy tales and fables by the Grimm brothers, Hans Christian Andersen, Aesop, Perrault and others; tales of the Arabian Nights; Edward Lear's nonsense poems and stories; as well as a few surprises.
It is lavishly illustrated in colour throughout using illustrations by famous children's book illustrators such as Walter Crane, Randolph Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, E V Boyle and Richard Doyle as well as specially commissioned illustrations. The result is a first-class collection of evocative illustrations.
Parents will be delighted to find all their old favourites here in the one volume and will be inspired to revive the valuable tradition of reading aloud to young children. Teachers will value the book as a comprehensive reference work and an invaluable teaching tool.
