Fairy Tales

'Fairy stories,' says Berlie Doherty, 'are enchanted dreams - we remember them as if they had been sung to us while we were under the spell of sleep.'

The twelve stories she has chosen for this collection are among the best-loved and most enchanting of all. These are classic tales that have enthralled children all over the world for hundreds of years; but rarely, if ever, have they been presented as perfectly as here, with Berlie Doherty's graceful, direct prose.

Here is fairy-tale magic for many a lifetime.