2. Three wishes.
Best versions:
Jacobs. More English
fairy tales.
Laboulaye. Last fairy
tales.
* * * * *
1. Wild swans.
Best versions:
Andersen. Fairy tales.
Andersen. Wonder stories.
Other versions:
Asbjoernsen. Norse fairy
tales. (Twelve wild ducks.)
Grimm. Household stories;
tr. by Crane. (Six swans.)
Jerrold. Reign of King
Oberon.
Thomsen. East o’
the sun. (Twelve wild ducks.)
Wiggin and Smith.
Fairy ring.
2. Boots and his brothers.
Best versions:
Asbjoernsen. Norse fairy
tales. (Jack and his brothers.)
Thomsen. East o’
the sun.
Other versions:
Bailey and Lewis.
For the children’s hour. (Peter, Paul and Espen.)
Laboulaye. Fairy tales.
Laboulaye. Last fairy
tales.
Tappan. Folk stories
and fables.
* * * * *
1. Tom Hickathrift.
Best versions:
Jacobs. More English
fairy tales.
Rhys. English fairy book.
2. Diana; and the story of Orion.
Best version:
Francillon. Gods and
heroes.
* * * * *
1. The fisherman and his wife.
Best version:
Grimm. Household stories;
tr. by Crane.
Other versions:
Baldwin. Fairy stories
and fables.
Grimm. Fairy tales; tr.
by Lucas.
Lang. Green fairy book.
Scudder. Children’s
book.
2. The Banyan deer.
Best version:
Jatakas. Jataka tales;
Babbitt.
* * * * *
1. Fisherman and the genii.
Best version:
Arabian nights; ed. by Wiggin
and Smith.
Other versions:
Fairy tales from the Arabian
nights; ed. by Dixon.
Arabian nights; ed. by Lang.
Arabian nights; ed. by Olcott.
2. The Lady of Shalott. (Poem by
Tennyson.)
Tennyson. Poems.
Couch. Oxford book of
English verse.
Wiggin and Smith.
Golden numbers.
* * * * *
1. Whittington and his cat.
Best version:
Jacobs. English fairy
tales.
Other versions:
Baldwin. Fifty famous
stories retold.
Lang. History of Whittington.
Norton. Heart of oak
books, v. 2.
Scudder. The book of
fables and folk stories
2. Orpheus and Eurydice.
Best version:
Francillon. Gods and
heroes.
Other versions:
Carpenter. Hellenic tales.
Firth. Stories of old
Greece.