The Blue Rose Fairy Book

The BLUE ROSE FAIRY BOOK, part compiled and part written by Maurice Baring, contains 12 children’s fairy tales. These are: The Glass Mender The Blue Rose The Story Of Vox Angelica And Lieblich Gedacht The Vagabond The Minstrel The Hunchback, The Pool, And The Magic Ring The Silver Mountain The Ring The Merchant's Daughter The Cunning Apprentice Orestes And The Dragon, and, The Wise Princess The stories are further brought to life by the 12 full-page colour illustrations by an unknown artist. But why The Blue Rose Fairy Book? In nature there is natural absence of blue roses. They have come to symbolise mystery and a longing to attain the impossible, with some cultures going so far as to say that the holder of a blue rose will have his wishes granted. And so, we have a book full of magical stories of Kings and Queens, Princes and Princesses, dragons, gypsies and much, much more. Don’t be surprised that when you have finished reading your young ones a story from this magical book that you feel a small tug at your sleeve with a request for “nutther please…?” 10% of the profit from the sale of this book will be given to charities. ============== KEYWORDS/TAGS: Blue Rose Fairy Book, Angelica, beautiful, bedtime stories, beggar, castle, childrens books, childrens stories, Cornet, cottage, country, d'Amore, Daphne, daughter, disappeared, dragon, Elfrida, Elsa, Emerald, expectant mothers, fables, face, fairy tales, fisherman, flowers, folklore, forest, Frantz, Lieblich Gedacht, Golden, Hautboy, Heartsease, horse, hunchback, huntsmen, India, island, Ivan the King's Son, Johan, King, kingdom, legends, lovely, married, merchant, minstrel, money, mother, Mountain, mothers with children, mothers to be, myths, nobody, Orestes, palace, parents with children, parents to be, pipe, pool, Prince, Princess, Queen, quest, Quint, Rainbow, Ring, Rose, sea, Silver, Simple Simon, sang, sisters, Snowflower, Song, Spring, strange, storyteller, sun, Sweetbriar, trees, vagabonds, village, Vox, wedding, white, wicked, wise, Windflower, wizard, woods, world

Maurice Baring OBE (27 April 1874 - 14 December 1945) was an English man of letters, known as a dramatist, poet, novelist, translator and essayist, and also as a travel writer and war correspondent, with particular knowledge of Russia. During World War I, Baring served in the Intelligence Corps and Royal Air Force. Born in Mayfair, he was educated at Eton College and Trinity College, Cambridge. After an abortive start of a diplomatic career, he travelled widely, particularly in Russia, where he lived in 1905-06. He reported as an eye-witness of the Russo-Japanese War for the London Morning Post. On returning to London he lived at North Cottage, 6 North Street, Westminster.

Excerpt from The Blue Rose Fairy Book The Blue Rose Fairy Book was written by Maurice Baring in 1911. This is a 292 page book, containing 44772 words and 18 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Originally published in 1911, this collection of short fairy tales is a fun read for all ages. Here is an excerpt: "Once upon a time there lived a King and a Queen who had one daughter called Rainbow. When she was christened, the people of the city were gathered together outside the cathedral, and amongst them was an old gipsy woman. The gipsy wanted to go inside the cathedral, but the Beadle would not let her, because he said there was no room. When the ceremony was over, and the King and Queen walked out, followed by the Head Nurse who carried the baby, the gipsy called out to them: 'Your daughter will be very beautiful, and as happy as the day is long, until she sees the Spring!' And then she disappeared in the crowd."