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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:
The Gingerbread
Boy Budulinek
Henny-Penny The
Sun & The Wind
The Wolf & The Seven Little Kids The
Miller, His Son & Their Donkey
The Story Of The Three Little Pigs Akaima
& The Clay Man
The Old Woman & Her Pig
The
Bremen Town Musicians
The Little Red Hen & The Grain The
Frog Prince
Of Wheat The
Elves & The Shoemaker
The Story Of The Three Bears Puss
In Boots
The Turnip Snow-white
Gone Is Gone Cinderella
The Three Billy-Goats Gruff
Little
Red-Riding Hood
The Golden Goose Molly
Whuppie
The Half-Chick Rumpelstiltskin
The History Of Tom Thumb One-Inch
Fellow
Jack & The Beanstalk The
Real Princess
From Tiger To Anansi The
Emperor's New Clothes
The Ugly Duckling
See also: The Mother
Goose Treasury
The Raymond Briggs Treasury
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