A Book of Magical Beasts

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A Book of Magical Beasts
Author	Ruth Manning-Sanders (editor)
Illustrator	Raymond Briggs
Cover artist	Raymond Briggs
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Fairy Tales
Publisher	Thomas Nelson
Publication date	1970
Media type	Print (hardcover)
Pages	244 pp

A Book of Magical Beasts is a 1970 anthology of 37 fairy tales and fantasy poems from around the world that have been collected and presented, in other authors' versions, by Ruth Manning-Sanders. Manning-Sanders thus serves as the editor of this volume, whereas in many other anthologies she is retelling the tales that she has collected.

This book was first published as The Hamish Hamilton Book of Magical Beasts in the Great Britain in 1965, by Hamish Hamilton.

[edit] Contents

• Introduction
• The Hedley Kow (Joseph Jacobs)
• The Straw Ox (R.N. Bain)
• The Last of the Dragons (E. Nesbit)
• The Audacious Kitten (Oliver Herford)
• Lord Peter (G. W. Dasent)
• Europa and the Bull (Anon)
• The Fisherman's Son (Adolf Dirr)
• The Stone Monkey (H. A. Giles)
• The Tinder Box (Hans Andersen)
• Alison Gross (Anon)
• The Serpent and the Peasant (Margery Wardrop)
• The Horny-goloch (Anon)
• Dapplegrim (G. W. Dasent)
• The Derbyshire Ram (Anon)
• The Grateful Goat (W. H. D. Rouse)
• Prince Prigio and the Firedrake (Andrew Lang)
• Jabberwocky (Lewis Carroll)
• The Golden Crab (Bernhard Schmidt)
• The Magic Swan (H. Kletke)
• The Lion and the Unicorn (Anon)
• The Story of the Stone Lion (Capt. W.F. O'Connor)
• The Tea-Kettle (Grace James)
• A Frog He Would A Wooing Go (Anon)
• The Frog (Leonora Alleyne)
• The Seven Foals (G. W. Dasent)
• The Strange White Beast (J.B.)
• The Husband of the Rat's Daughter (Leonora Alleyne)
• The Friendly Animals (W. M. Petrovitch)
• Earl Mar's Daughter (Anon)
• The White Bear (G. W. Dasent)
• Kempe Owyne (Anon)
• Jack and his Comrades (Joseph Jacobs)
• The Lame Vixen (A. H. Wratislaw)
• The Kraken (Lord Tennyson)
• Drakestail (Charles Morelles)
• The Well of the World's End (Joseph Jacobs)
• Little Red Bird (Mona Douglas)
• Acknowledgments