Walker Illustrated Classics is a new series which brings together some of the best-loved stories ever told, illustrated by some of today's finest artists. These exquisitely designed books, with their magnificent words and glorious pictures, are a pleasure to read - and re-read. The classics have never looked so good!

The twelve stories in this collection are among the best-loved and most enchanting fairy stories of all. These are classic tales that have enthralled children all over the world for hundreds of years; but rarely, if ever, can they have been presented as perfectly as here. Here is fairy-tale magic for many a lifetime.