Faery Tales (Faber Children's Classics)

Author(s): Carol Ann Duffy

Fairytales, Myths and Legends

Once upon a time, there was a rich merchant who had three daughters. The girls were just as clever as they were bella and none more so than the youngest, whose name was Beauty. Disappear to faraway lands of wicked witches, evil monsters and brave heroines in Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy's stunning collection of fairy tales. Including her beautiful and haunting retellings of the Grimm classics Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and the Pied Piper, as well as other tales from around the world, and new stories of her own, this book will make you think again about once upon a time...With ethereal illustrations by Tommi Tomislav, this uncommonly beautiful book is a very special introduction to - or reminder of - many classic fairy tales.

PUBLICATION FEBRUARY 2015

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Classic fairy stories retold by the poet laureate and available for the first time in a stunning gift edition.

Carol Ann Duffy was born in Glasgow and grew up in Stafford. She won the 1993 Whitbread Award for Poetry and the Forward Prize for best collection for Mean Time. The World's Wife received the E. M. Forster Award in America, whileRapture won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2005. She is currently Professor of Contemporary Poetry at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her most recent volumes are New and Collected Poems for Children (2009) and The Bees (2011 - Costa Poetry Award). She is Poet Laureate.

General Fields

  • : 9780571314270
  • : Faber Faber
  • : 0.707
  • : August 2014
  • : 242mm X 164mm X 34mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Carol Ann Duffy
  • : Hardback
  • : Main
  • : Tomislav Tomic
  • : 823.92
  • : 368