🌟 Andrew Lang's Coloured Fairy Books 🌟🌟🌟

🌙 Lunar Academy of Myths, Legends & Lore

✨ Recovered Myth Fragment (As with all myths, accuracy is debated and heavily argued.)

Despite their enchanting titles, Andrew Lang's Coloured Fairy Books are not books exclusively about fairies. Instead, they are among the greatest collections of traditional fairy tales, folklore, myths, legends, and folk stories ever assembled in English.

Published between 1889 and 1910, the twelve famous volumes were edited by the Scottish folklorist and writer Andrew Lang. Much of the translation and adaptation work was carried out by his wife, Leonora Blanche Lang, along with several other translators and scholars, all of whom were acknowledged in the books' prefaces. Together, they introduced English-speaking readers to stories gathered from Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas.

The books helped preserve hundreds of traditional tales, many of which had never before appeared in English. Rather than inventing new fairy stories, Lang and his collaborators collected and translated older tales from a remarkable variety of cultures.

The colors in the titles simply distinguish one volume from another. They do not represent different kinds of fairies, magical traditions, or themes.

The Twelve Coloured Fairy Books

The Blue Fairy Book (1889)
The Red Fairy Book (1890)
The Green Fairy Book (1892)
The Yellow Fairy Book (1894)
The Pink Fairy Book (1897)
The Grey Fairy Book (1900)
The Violet Fairy Book (1901)
The Crimson Fairy Book (1903)
The Brown Fairy Book (1904)
The Orange Fairy Book (1906)
The Olive Fairy Book (1907)
The Lilac Fairy Book (1910)

What You'll Find Inside

Across the twelve volumes are nearly 800 traditional stories, including:

Fairy tales
Folk tales
Legends
Myths
Heroic adventures
Animal tales
Wonder tales
Moral stories
Traditional nursery tales

The collections include stories from the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Madame d'Aulnoy, Norse tradition, Celtic folklore, Russian folklore, Scandinavian folklore, German folklore, French folklore, Italian folklore, Greek mythology, Arabian tradition, Japanese folklore, African traditions, Native American traditions, and many other cultures.

Many beloved classics, including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Twelve Dancing Princesses, Rumpelstiltskin, The Frog Prince, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and hundreds of lesser-known tales appear somewhere within the series.

Today, Andrew Lang's Coloured Fairy Books remain one of the most influential folklore collections ever published, inspiring generations of readers, scholars, writers, illustrators, and storytellers around the world.