Overview

FAVORITE FAIRY TALES The original blurb to this book read, This is a collection of the fairy tales that children love best, told in simple language and lavishly illustrated. They are written by various authors, a selection of the best and most popular fairy stories, culled from many sources and here collected and presented in most attractive form, printed in large clear type, with many pictures, some of them colored. Well, this isn't an illustrated edition -- gypan may do those, some day, but we don't now -- but the rest is still true. What's also true, and not apparent from the original blurb, us that we like this book a lot. We don't reprint books we don't like, and especially don't do lousy kids' books our own children might get ahold of. So Enjoy! This is something special.

Full Product Details

9781606649886

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Logan Marshall (born 1884), was the pen name of Logan Howard-Smith of Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Howard-Smith was the son of Robert Spurrier and Elizabeth (McKinney) Howard-Smith. The father was an executive of Link-Belt. Howard-Smith attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1905. Upon graduation he took a position as assistant editor at The John C. Winston Co., a publishing firm. Winston was later acquired by Henry Holt and became part of Holt, Rinehart & Winston. At Winston, Howard-Smith both edited and wrote a large number of books, mainly under the pen name Logan Marshall. These were often quickly produced and designed to satisfy public curiosity concerning a current event. As a result, Howard-Smith has been characterized as a hack and his language criticized as strained, excessive or melodramatic. Howard-Smith's (as Logan Marshall) The Sinking of the Titanic, however, achieved a great deal of fame as a result of being quickly at the market and continues to be cited in bibliographies about the incident.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available