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Provensen, Alice, Compiler

The Provensen Book of Fairy Tales

136 pp. | NYRB | November, 2021 | Trade ISBN 978-1-68137-582-3 $24.95 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-68137-604-2 $14.99
Reissue (1971, Random)
(2) 4-6 Illustrated by Alice Provensen & Martin Provensen. Here are collected (and reissued from the 1971 original) twelve literary fairy tales from several different European traditions, including Hans Christian ­Andersen's "The Nightingale"; ­Barbara Leonie Picard's "The Three Wishes"; Seumas ­MacManus's "Feather o' My Wing." Readers may recognize Katharine Pyle's "The Dreamer" because of Uri Shulevitz's picture book The Treasure, and Ruth Manning-Sanders's "The Seven Simons" contains the gist of The Five Chinese Brothers without the racism. The voices of these master storytellers are unfailingly distinctive and involving; frequent full-page-plus illustrations in the Provensens' inimitable style provide robust accompaniment. A foreword by Joan Bodger (author of How the Heather Looks) explaining the ­difference between a ­literary fairy tale and a folktale is a delightful bonus.
Reviewer: Martha V. Parravano | Horn Book Magazine Issue: January, 2022

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