''Once Long Ago: Folk & Fairy Tales of the World'' is a book of 70 fairy tales from many countries and cultures. The tales are told by
Roger Lancelyn Green
Roger Gilbert Lancelyn Green (2 November 1918 – 8 October 1987) was a British biographer and children's writer. He was an Oxford academic. He had a positive influence on his friend, C.S. Lewis, by encouraging him to publish ''The Lion, the ...
and illustrated by
Vojtěch Kubašta
Vojtěch Kubašta (1914, in Vienna – 1992) was a Czech architect and artist. He created pop-up books.
Vojtěch Robert Vladimír Kubašta was born in Vienna. His family moved to Prague when he was four years old and he lived there his entire li ...
.
The book was published in 1962 by Golden Pleasure Books in
London
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and reprinted in 1966 (second edition) and 1967 (third edition). It is out of print.
The book is notable for the wide variety of its tales, most of which will be unfamiliar to readers from English-speaking countries, such as "
The Nung-Guama" (Chinese), "The Voice of Death" (Romanian), and "Long, Stout, and Sharpeyes" (Czech). More familiar tales include "Little Snow White" and "The Sleeping Beauty."
Contents
All wording and spelling appears as in the original book.
Related works
A stripped-down version of the book, titled ''Once Upon a Time: Folk and Fairy Tales of the World'', was also published in 1962 by
Golden Press
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(New York) and The Musson Book Company (Toronto). This edition used the same illustrated layouts, but only half (35) of the tales, for a total of 140 pages.
References
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Collections of fairy tales