The Blue Fairy Book

Books Yellow, Red, and Green and Blue,
All true, or just as good as true,
And here's the Blue Book just for YOU!  

Hard is the path from A to Z,
And puzzling to a curly head,
Yet leads to Books—Green, Yellow and Red.  

For every child should understand
That letters from the first were planned
To guide us into Fairy Land 

So labour at your Alphabet,
For by that learning shall you get
To lands where Fairies may be met.  

And going where this pathway goes,
You too, at last, may find, who knows?
The Garden of the Singing Rose.  

As to whether there are really any fairies or not, that is a difficult question. The Editor never saw any himself, but he knew several people who have seen them-in the Highlands-and heard their music.  

If ever you are in Nether Lochaber, go to the Fairy Hill, and you may hear the music your-self, as grown-up people have done, but you must go on a fine day. 

This book has been especially re-published to raise funds for:  

The Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity 

By buying this book you will be donating to this great charity that does so much good for ill children and which also enables families to stay together in times of crisis. And what better way to help children than to buy a book of fairy tales. Some have not been seen in print or heard for over a century. 33% of the Publisher’s profit from the sale of this book will be donated to the GOSH Children’s Charity.  

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Excerpt from The Blue Fairy Book

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD 

Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature was ever seen. Her mother was excessively fond of her; and her grandmother doted on her still more. This good woman had made for her a little red riding-hood; which became the girl so extremely well that everybody called her Little Red Riding-Hood.  

One day her mother, having made some custards, said to her:  

"Go, my dear, and see how thy grandmamma does, for I hear she has been very ill; carry her a custard, and this little pot of butter."  

Little Red Riding-Hood set out immediately to go to her grandmother, who lived in another village.  

As she was going through the wood, she met with Gaffer Wolf, who had a very great mind to eat her up, but he dared not, because of some faggot-makers hard by in the forest. He asked her whither she was going. The poor child, who did not know that it was dangerous to stay and hear a wolf talk, said to him:  

"I am going to see my grandmamma and carry her a custard and a little pot of butter from my mamma."  

"Does she live far off?" said the Wolf.  

"Oh! aye," answered Little Red Riding-Hood; "it is beyond that mill you see there, at the first house in the village."  

"Well," said the Wolf, "and I'll go and see her too. I'll go this way and you go that, and we shall see who will be there soonest."  

The Wolf began to run as fast as he could, taking the nearest way, and the little girl went by that farthest about, diverting herself in gathering nuts, running after butterflies, and making nosegays of such little flowers as she met with. The Wolf was not long before he got to the old woman's house. He knocked at the door—tap, tap.  

"Who's there?"  

"Your grandchild, Little Red Riding-Hood," replied the Wolf, counterfeiting her voice; "who has brought you a custard and a little pot of butter sent you by mamma."  

The good grandmother, who was in bed, because she was somewhat ill, cried out:  

"Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up."The Wolf pulled the bobbin, and the door opened, and then presently he fell upon the good woman and ate her up in a moment, for it was above three days that he had not touched a bit. He then shut the door and went into the grandmother's bed, expecting Little Red Riding-Hood, who came some time afterward and knocked at the door—tap, tap.  

"Who's there?"  

Little Red Riding-Hood, hearing the big voice of the Wolf, was at first afraid; but believing her grandmother had got a cold and was hoarse, answered:  

"’Tis your grandchild, Little Red Riding-Hood, who has brought you a custard and a little pot of butter mamma sends you."  

The Wolf cried out to her, softening his voice as much as he could:  

"Pull the bobbin, and the latch will go up."  

Little Red Riding-Hood pulled the bobbin, and the door opened.  

The Wolf, seeing her come in, said to her, hiding himself under the bed-clothes:  

"Put the custard and the little pot of butter upon the stool, and come and lie down with me."  

Little Red Riding-Hood undressed herself and went into bed, where, being greatly amazed to see how her grandmother looked in her night-clothes, she said to her:  

"Grandmamma, what great arms you have got!"  

"That is the better to hug thee, my dear."  

"Grandmamma, what great legs you have got!"  

"That is to run the better, my child."  

"Grandmamma, what great ears you have got!"  

"That is to hear the better, my child."  

"Grandmamma, what great eyes you have got!"  

"It is to see the better, my child."  

"Grandmamma, what great teeth you have got!"  

"That is to eat thee up."  

And, saying these words, this wicked wolf fell upon Little Red Riding-Hood, and tried to start eating her. Red Riding Hood screamed “Someone Help Me!” over and over again. 

The woodcutter, who was felling trees nearby, heard Red Riding Hood’s screams for help and ran to the cottage. He burst in to find the wolf trying to eat Red Riding Hood.
He swung his axe, and with one blow killed the bad wolf for which Red Riding Hood was ever so grateful.

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