The Giant Golden Book of Elves and Fairies (A Golden Classic) Hardcover – Picture Book, September 9, 2008

Despite the age of the book, it is in very good condition. And the stories are for every child. Give your children or grand children just ten minutes for each story and watch their imagination grow.

This was my favorite book 70 years ago so I loved that I could get a new copy for my grand kids. I hope they will save it for their kids someday.

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!

I love this book as a child and was thrilled to be able to find it for my niece's baby shower!

When I was six years old, in 1952, I was given a copy of this book. I was about to start second grade, and I vividly remember reading the first story in this collection of unusual fairy tales,"Singeli's Silver Slippers" all on my own and feeling proud of myself and enchanted with the story and the amazingly charming Garth Williams illustrations.Through the years I have read and re-read this book many times. As a teacher and parent I've read from it to many children and my original copy is very worn. Every parent and teacher who has seen my old copy has asked how to get one, and for years I searched,unsuccessfully, to find it. When I began as a book seller on Amazon Marketplace, I looked it up, but it was long out of print and copies from the 50s were priced in the hundreds of dollars. I wrote to the publisher, Simon and Schuster and relayed the above information and begged them to reissue the book. I heard no response, but when I recently checked again to see the going price, was delighted to find it had been reissued and available at very reasonable prices. Side by side with my original, the colors of the artwork are noticeably less intense, but it's still fabulous. The sense of childhood's wonder at the idea of magical fairies, elves, brownies, leprechauns,and such is still wonderfully conveyed in the book, and it's a delight.

I love this book. The stories and poems are things I will always remember.While the reprint might lose a little something in terms of the illustrations, they are all still gorgeous and so detailed you will always notice something new.The Cannery Bear, Ring Around the Moon, The Brownie in the Garden...I bought copies of this for all my nieces, nephews and children of cousins, as it includes wonderful things such as this: (from memory)"In the Leprechaun's house, on the living room shelfstands a small golden box with a key.And, within that wee box, so he told me himself,is a treasure intended for me.Though I long to stop in, and learn what it may be,this marvelous treasure he gives,the wee man, I guess, is forgetful, like me,for he didn't say just where he lives."

This book was given to my oldest brother when he was a tiny kid. It has lasted 72 years. I wanted a new copy that still had the cover to give to one of my nieces for her baby boy. This book was out of print for the longest time I’m so happy to see it again!