Kay Nielsen

Featuring 15 Scandinavian fairy tales ? including the popular "Billy Goat's Gruff"? this is one of the most stunning children's books ever produced. The text is lavished with 25 intricately detailed color and numerous black-and-white images that glow with Nielsen's phantasmagorical style.

Old Tales from the North

East of the Sun and West of the Moon

Harriet Moar-Smith

I think if I'd had this read to me I would have enjoyed it, or if I hadn't have read it so fast, story after story. I guess it feels more honest as a written account of oral storytelling but in the reading, it feels like a rambling tumble of ideas in each story. Some really lovely moments and illustrations though.

East of the Sun and West of the Moon Old Tales from the North

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