The Yellow Fairy Book
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Book Description
Editor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book. We have had the Blue, the Eed, the Green, and here is the Yellow. If children are pleased, and they are so kind as to say that they are pleased, the Editor does not care very much for what other people may say. Now, there is one gentleman who seems to think that it is not quite right to print so many fairy tale...
MoreEditor thinks that children will readily forgive him for publishing another Fairy Book. We have had the Blue, the Eed, the Green, and here is the Yellow. If children are pleased, and they are so kind as to say that they are pleased, the Editor does not care very much for what other people may say. Now, there is one gentleman who seems to think that it is not quite right to print so many fairy tales, with pictures, and to publish them in red and blue covers. He is named Mr. G. Laurence Gomme, and he is president of a learned body called the Folk Lore Society. Once a year he makes his address to his subjects, of whom the Editor is one, and Mr. Joseph Jacobs (who has published many delightful fairy tales with pretty pictures)l is another. Fancy, then, the dismay of Mr. Jacobs, and of the Editor, when they heard their president say that he did not think it very nice in them to publish fairy books, above all, red, green, and blue fairy books !T hey said that they did not see any harm in it, and they were ready to put themselves on their country, and be tried by a jury of children. A nd, indeed, they still see no harm in what they have done ;nay, like Father William in the poem, they are ready to do it again and again. 1Y ou may buy them from Mr. Xutt, in theS
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