The Blue Fairy Book age-21 Anna bears an eerie resemblance

Anna bears an eerie resemblance to Zoe

Their aid will come at a price: the kids must pass a series of trials in which it seems like nature itself is out to kill them

on the eve of his tenth birthday

and inspires them to read and puzzle and dream for themselves

Patterned endpapers

The Blue Fairy Book age-21 Anna bears an eerie resemblanceIt is almost impossible to envision what childhood would be like without the enchanting world of fairyland. Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, giants and dwarfs, monsters and magicians, fairies and ogres these are the companions who will thrill young boys and girls of all lands and all times, as Andrew Lang's phenomenally successful collections of stories have proved. From the day that they were first printed, the Lang fairy tale books of many colors