This book was probably late 40’s or early 50’s and was a collection of fairy tales from around the world. It did have Bluebeard and Puss in Boots and some of the traditional stories, but it also had a story about children in “Lapland”. It was probably fourteen inches or so in height and maybe and inch and a quarter to an inch and a half thick. It had some illustrations. I can’t remember much more but I would recognize it instantly. Please help me identify it!
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I’m afraid that’s not information for me to identify the book, but the story involving Lapland may have been ‘The Snow Queen’ by Hans Christian Andersen. When Gerda is pursuing the Snow Queen to rescue her brother Kay, she does travel to Lapland and then to Finland afterward.
Sounds likely to be “The Blue Fairy Book” and “The Pink Fairy Book”, parts of a series of a dozen or more collections of international fairy tales collected by Andrew Lang in the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Puss-in-Boots and and Bluebeard appear in the “Blue Fairy Book”, the Snow Queen appears in “The Pink Fairy Book”. These have been some popular fairy tale collections for generations, and it’s possible you may have had some sort of “best of” collection that had the more well-known stories collected in one volume? “The Blue Fairy Book” includes several Norwegian and Swedish tales, though, and possibly one or more Finnish tales, so that seems like a great place to start.