Best Fairy Tales 4-Book Boxed Set: Containing: Andersen's Best Fairy Tales, Aesop's Fables, Grimms' Fairy Tales and J. Jacob's Celtic Fairy Tales - all illustrated (Collector's Library) - Tapa dura

This an ideal gift for children from parents, grandparents, godparent, aunts, uncles and family friends. It contains an anthology of Hans Christian Andersen's best stories, Aesop's Fables, the classic tales of the Grimm brothers and the mystical Celtic stories from Ireland Wales and Scotland. All the books are beautifully illustrated in black and white.

Fairy tales are the simplest and purest expressions of the collective unconscious and thus offer the clearest understanding of the basic patterns of the human psyche. Folk tales and fairy stories were originally intended for both adults and children and this collection brings together two great European traditions in "Grimms' Household Tales" and "The Best Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen". From the far north-west of Europe comes Joseph Jacob's anthology "Celtic Fairy Tales" while ancient Greek culture is represented by "Aesop's Fables" from south-east Europe. It is illustrated by well-known artists including Arthur Rackham.