From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.

"The key unlocks the oak tree."  From Return of the Fairies by Charles J. Bellamy, 1899.

Before The Stuff, there was the Brothers Grimm's "The Porridge."  From Elson-Gray Basic Readers, Book One, 1937.

From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.

From The Floating Prince and Other Fairy Tales by Frank R. Stockton, 1930.

From Jack & Jill, a Fairy Story by Greville Macdonald and illustrated by Arthur Hughes, 1913.

From The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 1949.

From The Treasure Chest of My Bookhouse by Olive Beaupré Miller, 1920.

From The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald and illustrated by Charles Folkard, 1949.

From Fairy Stories My Children Love Best of All by Edgar Dubs Shimer and illustrated by Lucy Fitch Perkins, 1920.

From The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Maurice Baring, 1911.

From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford, 1906.

From Mother Goose Secrets as told by the story gnome to Barbara Webb Bourjaily and illustrated by Joe King, 1925.

From Grimm's Fairy Stories, Supplementary to First Reader by M. Winifred Haliburton, 1900.

From The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, 1889.

From Grimm's Fairy Tales, translated by Margaret Hunt and illustrated by John Gruelle, 1914.

From Shadowland, 1923.

From The Firelight Fairy Book by Henry Beston, 1919.

"There sat a great white owl."  From the rare Twilight Fairy Tales by Maud Booth, 1906.

From The Cruikshank Fairy-Book by George Cruikshank, 1911.