This is a 1st edition of Lang’s The Green Fairy Book. Green hardback with a gold dragon on the cover. Has the name Betty written in it as well as Montgomery and Kendal.

Fairy stories are imaginary tales set in fantastical lands. Take these ducks for example. Well, the name 'fairy story' might make you think that the story would be about fairies and nothing else.

Jason Treat, NGM STAFF. art: SAM FALCONER. Sources: Sara Graça da Silva, Institute for the Study of Literature and Tradition (IELT), New University of Lisbon, Portugal; Jamie Tehrani, Durham ...

It’s easy to dismiss fairy tales as being out of touch with the real world. But they survive because they express, in a primal way, our deepest fears and our deepest values. The Watergate story ...