The Blue Fairy Book: Fully Illustrated Edition Paperback – April 8, 2015

I was losing hope on ever finding beautiful, hardcover copies of the fairy books since not a lot of publishers printed them. Folio society had them for a while but the books are now out of print so third party sellers are selling them for a HUGE profit. I could barely contain my excitement when I saw these affordable and UNABRIDGED editions from Racehorse Publishing which is under Simon and Schuster. I purchased the Blue and Red Fairy books and found out that the Green and Yellow books are going to be released on November! I hope that they would publish the remaining 8 of the fairy books so I could complete all 12 of them. Overall, amazing value! I’m very satisfied.

I do not recommend this book though i love fairytales and strongly believe that children should be exposed to them, this book should not be the one to do so. I believe in teaching my children good values and hard work, that integrity and goodness trumps evil. I have only read 4 of the stories and only one of the four have impressed me. The values taught in the stories that i read were that you do not have to do good to get ahead, its ok to cheat and lie to get what you want. In one story inparticular an enchanted bear takes a young girl to be his wife and provides all her heart desires but at night when it is dark he turns back into a man and climbs into bed with her and sleeps next to her every night...the girl misses her family so the bear arranged a visit but instructed the girl not be left alone with her mother for she will surely ask about what goes on in the castle and she must not tell her mother about what happens at night......So NO....that is not ok. There are other stories where the hero of the story is instructed to kill in order to get ahead. There has to be other books out there that are better to teach our children fairytales than this.

My 8 year old loves this. I like the classic versions of the stories. These are not watered down fairy tales, so make sure your child is mature enough to handle. For my kiddos (a bit sensitive, they don’t see much tv), I think around 7-9 is great age. I enjoy them as an adult.

If you only want the words, then buy this book. What you'll receive is an 8 1/2" by 11" by 5/8" thick manuscript with no page numbers, printed in 10 point Courier New. There is no title page or any information other than the table of contents (no page numbers) and no pictures as in the original. It costs less than copies of the original, and has the same name, but what you'll receive is definitely less if you want a fairy tale book to help transport you to other lands and times.

I bought this book for Valentine's Day for my six-month-old goddaughter. Starting her off right! It's a beautiful hardcover book with quality paper and lovely illustrations. I plan to buy the series and give her a different color fairy book for each special occasion. I also bought the Kindle version for myself. You're never too old for a good fairy tale.

I have a copy of this volume that I inherited from my father (early 1900s) and one of my granddaughters fell in love with it. Since she's half of a pair of twins, I needed two copies (one for each twin lest one feel slighted) and this one is really lovely.

I bought this looking forward to a nice edition of the famous Blue Fairy book. We have the paperback Dover Classics version that has all the famous original illustrations. This version has perhaps a fifth of them. We prefer the Dover.

Beautiful books for older kids who don’t need pictures anymore or who will sit and listen without pictires

I bought this book for my son, as I had the blue fairy book when I was little and loved it. I will not be reading this with him and will be returning it. To say that it is illustrated is an exaggeration - a few poor quality black and white pictures don’t really count on my opinion. The font is small, and some of the stories are definitely not the same as I had in my copy as a child! Since when does Little Red Riding Hood take off all her clothes and get into bed with the wolf, who then eats her?? The description of this book makes it sound suitable for children; it is certainly not.

Nice binding. Pages in order.Will buy rest of set eventually.

Very happy with this.

Do not buy. I bought for the gorgeous cover art work and was hoping more beautiful pics would be inside... NOPE. The cover artwork itself is all pixelated and stretched like the image was stolen from google images and expanded way too big (super unprofessional in my opinion!!) and the text on the inside (with no extra pictures of any kind) looks like a printed manuscript off for editing and review, not like a finished copy of a book you would sell. Very disappointed and totally returning this shady a** copy of this cool volume of stories :(