Golden Books The Giant of Elves and Fairies

Oh what a wonderful magical book ! Lovely illustrations and a great story!!!

Cuando era niña, me gustó mucho este libro y quería mostrarle a mi nieta que también le gusta leer.

I had this book as a child, long ago given away but I always remembered the story about a bear with his shoes on backwards and a pink fairy bear!I have looked for this book in second hand bookshops to no avail, then I discovered it had been republished and here it was on Amazon.Just as I remembered, there was the bear with his shoes on backwards! I'll have great pleasure sharing these stories and poems with my grandchildren.

Like most here I too had this book as a child. It along with The Tall Book Of Make Believe were my favorites. I still have my tattered copy of the tall book and I mean tattered. When I was around 14 yr old or so I gave my copy of this book away to the children I was babysitting for. Being much too old for such childish things. I have regretted it for years. I don't regret I shared that was a good thing but as I got older I longed to read those beloved stories just once more.After reading some of the reviews here I was afraid I would be disappointed in how the colors in the book are not the same. I will say my original had a green background on the cover. I find this copy to be excellent. I think the difference is the new copy is on heavy glossy paper and the original on heavy matte paper. Same as with wall paint the more gloss the lighter the color gets. That aside I have nothing bad to say, just a difference in media.When I got the package I was almost shaking. I opened the box and gasped in delight! I never thought I would see this wonderful book again. First I gently looked at all the pictures and floods of memories came to me of every night having stories read to me from this book. My favorites were and still are The Cannery Bear and The Lost Merbaby. There is not a bad story in the book. The inside covers are so enchanting, I remember looking at it for such a long time and making up my own enchanted forest stories.This is a must have in every child's library be they 2 or 100 yrs old. The language is older proper English which was really music to my ears. I sat down and read The Lost Merbaby out loud just to me and the dog. Wonderful.....simply wonderful. My old copy had been handed down to me from an older cousin and was quite torn up when I got it in approx 1958, never saw a dust cover the the clear coating on the cover was yellow and peeling off.If you had this as a child you will not be disappointed, just consider the difference between the paper types, the Garth William illustration as just as enchanting now as they were now. Enjoy!

Es una preciosidad el libro, me encanta.