Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 398.21
EAN num: 9780809452125
ISBN number: 080945212X
Label: Time Life Education
Manufacturer: Time Life Education
Page Count: 143
Printing Date: 1984-06
Publishing house: Time Life Education
Sale Popularity Level: 697023
Studio: Time Life Education
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This book is one in Time Life Books' The Enchanted World series. Each of these books covers a different aspect of folklore and mythology, and they are an excellent set. They tell stories in a similar format and complement each other well without repeating the content. Each is about 140 pages.
This is a beautifully illustrated well printed volume. Artists include Mark Hess, Alicia Austin, Winslow Pinney Pels, James C Christensen, Yvonne Gilbert, Wyne Anderson, Lucy Maxym, Kinuko Y Craft and Jozef Sumichrast. Older depictions of fairies and elves are common, including work by John Atkinson Grimshaw, Edmund Dulac, John Anster Fitzgerald, Daniel Maclise, Moritz von Schwind, Joseph Noel Patton and of course John Waterhouse.
Stories are retold in a style that makes for a good read. These stories come from all over the world. Often there will be smaller illustrations and captions in the margins to the main story. These tell variations of the story and related stories from other cultures.
This is a beautifully bound and printed book. The binding is just cloth to collectors, but it is printed to look like a wizard's book. The cover shows a dragon holding a picture of a fairy rising out of a lake. I think it was the cover that got me reading this when I was child (this would be for older children because of the spooky nature).
Chapters include:
Lands behind Enchantment's Veil: A world in miniature
Guardians of Field and Forest: The myrtle tree's tenant
Of Fairy Raids and Mortal Missteps: Tam Lin
The Heart's Far-Carrying Call: Trials of a Charmed Passion
This is a well researched nicely produced series. For me one book in the series (This very book!!) had me hooked. If you are interested in mythology and all things magic then it is definitely worth trying out the series. High school and middle school libraries should consider the series. Some books might cause issues since they are about the occult, but some like The Legend of Camelot book will be completely Kosher.
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This book does a nice job of combining illustrations, general facts, short folk tales, and longer tales. Though it provides a great number of examples of fairy and elf tales from around the world (mostly European, of course) it does NOT provide useful tables or lists of names for similar creatures. Also, the book does not give meaningful overviews or summaries comparing and contrasting tales from different cultures.
It's part of a beautiful series from Time-Life books but is not a complete reference source.
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