The Violet Fairy Book (Large Print)

Andrew Lang's Fairy Books are a series of twenty-five collections of true and fictional stories for children. The best known books of the series are the twelve collections of fairy tales, known as Andrew Lang's "Coloured" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's Fairy Books of Many Colors. In all, the volumes feature 798 stories, besides the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book. Roumania, Japan, Serbia, Lithuania, Africa, Portugal, and Russia are among the sources of these 35 stories that tell of a haunted forest, chests of gold coins, a magical dog, and a man who outwits a dragon. This is a new collection of Fairy stories in continuation of the series which "The Blue Fairy Book" was the initial volume.