As the titles says, this book contains assorted stories from several countries; eleven in fact. Each country gets one story, except for Japan which gets three. They are: England: Jack the Giant-Killer. The reasonably well known “killed three with one blow: story that even Mickey Mouse covered, only a little bloodier. Scotland: The Battle of the Birds. Which you would think would be about a fight between birds, but it’s a rather strange tale about a king’s son and the adventures he has finding, losing, […]
“As cynical as I can be, there’s always a part of me that believes in love and the fairy tale.”
Fairy Tales From Many Lands by various, illustrations by Arthur Rackham


