A Book of Dwarfs

by Ruth Manning-Sanders

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0330233173
• ISBN13: 9780330233170
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Don't Forget The Dwarf!

Just thought I'd mention that the front cover (at least of the 1973 printing of the anthology "The Book of Dwarfs") has an illustration of a handsome red-haired dwarf by Brian Froud, who went on to do the design for "The Dark Crystal" and "Labyrinth", among other things. The book itself is just as exciting as the cover, I think, and I really enjoyed it. I loved the Irish dwarf stories. Are they leprechauns? It doesn't really say in the book if they were. Worth a read.

A delightful book of fairy tales

This is an anthology of 17 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. In the foreword, Manning-Sanders states that most stories about dwarfs come from the "northerly parts of the world," yet also includes tales discovered in Japan and Arabia. Of dwarfs, she summarizes: "[M]ost of them are good-hearted and if you treat them well they will lavish wonderful gifts and kindnesses upon you. But beware of taking liberties with even the best of them! Of course a few of them are bad-tempered and as for these -- well, keep out of their way, if you can. But if you can't keep out of their way, trying pitting your good feeling against their bad feelings, and you will generally come off best. At least that is what the story books say." Table of contents 1. Knurremurre (Zeeland) 2. Freddy and his Fiddle (Norway) 3. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Germany) 4. The Field of Ragwort (Ireland) 5. Thumbkin (Germany) 6. The Girl Who Picked Strawberries (Germany) 7. Little Mukra (Arabia) 8. Bottle Hill (Ireland) 9. The Skipper and the Dwarfs (Jutland) 10. The Three Little Men in the Wood (Germany) 11. The Hazel-Nut Child (Bukovina) 12. The Silver Bell (Rügen) 13. The Adventures of Billy McDaniel (Ireland) 14. Timimoto (Japan) 15. The Cobbler and the Dwarfs (Germany) 16. The Story of Maia (Denmark) 17. Fir Cones (Germany)