The book I’m looking for is definitely older. It is a large, aged, dull lime green or olive green hardcover. I can’t remember what’s in the front, but there is a picture of what may be a friendly green-faced (again, duller green) troll with a white wig and a red shirt doing a cartwheel on the back cover of the book, along with a short description below it.<\/p>\n
It is about a foot tall, 8″ wide, and 3-4″ thick. It has 600+ pages, I think… definitely more than 300.<\/p>\n
This book looked old to me back in the 90s, so I’m guessing it is from 1990 or earlier.<\/p>\n
Looks like it might contain a collection of Aesop, The Brothers Grimm, and Hans Christian Andersen tales as well as some other stories.<\/p>\n
Some of the stories definitely include (from memory):<\/p>\n
– The Nightingale (Aesop)
\n– The Water of Life (Grimm, German)
\n– Sinbad the Sailor’s 4th Journey
\n– Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves
\n– The Tinderbox (Aesop)
\n– The Emperor’s New Suit \/ Clothes (Aesop)
\n– Stone Soup
\n– The Pied Piper
\n– The Twelve Dancing Princesses (Grimm)
\n– The fisherman and his wife
\n– The Golden Goose (Grimm)
\n– The Princess and the Pea<\/p>\n
There are illustrations in the book with the stories and it is done in a very old-fashioned art style… I would think to date it to before 1980, but I’m not an expert.<\/p>\n
I know this is pretty hard considering the lack of detail. I’ve been looking for this book for a long time. =(<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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