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Title: The Book of Elves and Fairies for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading

Author: Frances Jenkins Olcott

Illustrator: Milo Winter

Release date: April 3, 2018 [eBook #56914]

Language: English

Credits: Produced by MFR, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed
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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BOOK OF ELVES AND FAIRIES FOR STORY-TELLING AND READING ALOUD AND FOR THE CHILDREN'S OWN READING ***

Books by Frances Jenkins Olcott

PUBLISHED BY
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

THE BOOK OF ELVES AND FAIRIES. Illustrated in color by Milo Winter.

TALES OF THE PERSIAN GENII. Illustrated in color by Willy Pogany.

THE RED INDIAN FAIRY BOOK. Illustrated in color by Frederick Richardson.

BIBLE STORIES TO READ AND TELL. Illustrated in color by Willy Pogany.

GOOD STORIES FOR GREAT HOLIDAYS. Illustrated.

STORY-TELLING POEMS.

THE CHILDREN’S READING.

With Amena Pendleton

THE JOLLY BOOK FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.

THE BOOK OF ELVES
AND FAIRIES

“THIS IS MAB, THE MISTRESS FAIRY” (page 209)

THE BOOK OF
ELVES AND FAIRIES

FOR STORY-TELLING AND READING ALOUD
AND FOR THE CHILDREN’S OWN READING

BY
FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTT

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY MILO WINTER

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1918

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY FRANCES JENKINS OLCOTT

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED


Published October 1918

TO
THEODORE OLCOTT PHILLIPS

“Good luck befriend thee, son; for, at thy birth,
The FAIRY LADIES danced upon the hearth;
The drowsy nurse hath sworn she did them spy
Come tripping to the room, where thou didst lie,
And sweetly singing round about thy bed
Strew all their blessings on thy sleeping head!”
MILTON