A collection of classic fairy tales and stories from around the world, accompanied
by a myriad of extraordinary colour and black and white illustrations from Raymond
Briggs. Many are full page creations in vivid colour...

This is an excellent accompaniment to The Mother Goose Treasury. Mr Briggs
adapts his creations to suit each tale, switching and mixing black and white
and colour work, crosshatch, a little bit of pointilism, watercolour, felts and pastels.

There are comic strip panels in 'Gone Is Gone. 'One-Inch Fellow' begins with six
controlled Manga miniatures and culminates in a dynamic felt pen and crayon
double-page dragon. Illustrations roam across the pages, in and around the
text to magnificent effect. We see the poor Miller's Daughter and her loom
in 'Rumpelstiltskin'. She is a tiny figure at the bottom of the page, all but buried
beneath a mass of crosshatched golden straw, with a small barred window so
very high up above the text. A great green giant squints down at 'Puss In Boots'.
He's cramped up at the top of the page looking down, down to the little cat
between his boots - fabulous!...

A softback edition of this book was later combined with The Mother Goose
Treasury in a slipcased presentation called The Raymond Briggs Treasury.

Tales in the Fairy Tale Treasury include:

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