Short description:

With introductions and biographies from Jack Zipes, and the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award winning Romer Wilson ? Green Magic (1928), Silver Magic (1929), Red Magic (1930) ? offers classic fairy tales alongside lesser known, global and diverse tales.

Long description:

With a Preface and biographies from Jack Zipes, as well as the original illustrations by Violet Brunton, this collection of fairy tales originally published by the award-winning Romer Wilson ? Green Magic (1928), Silver Magic (1929), and Red Magic (1930) ? offers a combination of classic fairy tales, alongside lesser known, global and diverse tales.

Silver Magic contains classic fairy tales including ?Cinderella,? ?Beauty and the Beast,? and Hawthorne?s ?The Miraculous Pitcher,? as well as several anonymous and previously undiscovered tales such as ?Lohengrin.? It was Romer Wilson?s intention to combine the familiar with the unknown, and to introduce authors and cultures from a variety of countries. As a researcher, Wilson uncovered a remarkable amount of stories from other countries that remain unknown today. This collection gives voice to unique and intriguing tales that inspire children to have a better understanding of how people and their stories are alike despite major differences.

Through his Preface and commentary, Jack Zipes shows how all three books are a means to bring people together in the name of peace and justice. These books will, therefore, be of interest to anyone researching or studying fairy tales, folklore and children?s literature, as well as global or comparative literature and social justice.

"Wilson?s playful paratexts and advice to readers that they must each discover the truth of a tale themselves make it evident that her priority is not presenting texts as a folklorist would but giving readers permission to engage them imaginatively on their own terms. After all, Wilson was not a scholar but a novelist?one possessing a mind that was not only erudite but also playful. Her diverse selection of fairy tales challenges and encourages readers to read the tales without the sober paratextual guidance of a conventional editor and to be dazzled by the imaginative words and worlds they encounter. In recovering Green Magic, Silver Magic, and Red Magic, Zipes gives Romer Wilson a chance to remind us that fairy tales are also about play."

--Donald Haase

Table of Contents:

CONTENTS

Preface - Jack Zipes

On Giants and Dwarfs - Romer Wilson

The Miraculous Pitcher - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Simmerwater: A Yorkshire Philemon - Anonymous

The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche - Apuleius

The Werewolf - Petronius

Eight Tales from Gesta Romanorum - Charles Swan

The Goose-Girl at the Well - J.E. Taylor (Brothers Grimm)

Clever Alice - J. E. Taylor (Brothers Grimm

Lohengrin - Anonymous

The Master-Thief - Anonymous

Boots and the Eating Match with the Troll - Asbj?rnsen and Moe (Dasent)

How the Sea Became Salt - Anonymous

Finn MacCool and Future Events - F. R. Davies

Finn MacCool and the Giant

O?Donaghue?s Pigs - Anonymous

Davy Hanlan - Patrick Cody

Some Nonsense - Anonymous

The Twelve Dancing Princesses - Thomas Roscoe (Brothers Grimm)

Cinderella. or, The Little Glass Slipper - James R. Planché (Charles Perrault)

The Yellow Dwarf - James R. Planché (Mme d?Aulnoy)

Beauty and the Beast - James R. Planché (Mme Villeneuve )