Actually there is just one that is really important. I don't know the title... or the author. It's an anthology of stories and fairy tales... with excellent illustrations.
The book is blue hardback and the end sheets in the front and back of the book are blue with black sketches of people in all attitudes of reading.
There is a lady with a parasol in a boat, reading, a boy in a tree house by the river, reading, and a gentleman in a bowler hat leaning against the tree, reading, among others; all of them, reading.
Inside there are the regular fairy tails... and some others... like a dragon that lives with a family or something... the picture for that story is of the family and the dragon and a Farris wheel in the background. There is Rikki Tikki Tavey the mongoose / family pet that saves the family from a cobra. There is the dog who thinks it's a cat. Ah, so many good stories from my childhood.
Anyway, I've been looking for it. Does anyone know of this anthology?
I'm also keeping my eyes out for the Great Fairy Tale Classics Vol. I and II... I had them as a kid, and still have one but some pages are missing. They are good stories, not great illustrations but I think they are worth keeping.
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