Fantastic fairy tales are wondrous stories of fabulous beings. These beings are giants, ogres, dragons and lime worms, house spirits or darklings, hillmen, mermaids and mermaids, fish and snake spirits, sea monsters and many more. They all inhabit a magical primordial and other world in which we humans are reflected. The fairy tales are about adventure, longing and love, are funny, exciting or mysterious and are full of strange events. Great illustrations accompany the texts. An illustrated fairy tale encyclopaedia provides information about spring roots, changelings, trolls and many other fairy tale themes and characters.Adventurous reading fun: Old traditional legends and fairy tales told in a new and lively wayFor young and old and all those who can't get enough of dragons, mermaids, witches, dwarfs, giants and much more.Unique: Richly illustrated collection with fairy tale dictionary from A-ZFeatures: Numerous b/w illustrations.