FAIRY TALES OF MANY LANDS: 4 vol.

With other titles in preparation, these four books of fairy tales from Germany, Russia, Ireland, and China mark an auspicious beginning. Told simply but in a tone appropriate to the stories, and beautifully illustrated in color, these books conjure up an atmosphere of wonder nearly inaccessible to today's fact-fed, television-ridden child. A library of classics, some obscure, some familiar, but uniformly delightful.