All people in the world tell nursery tales to their children, and the stories are apt to be like each other everywhere. A child who has read the Blue and Red and Yellow Fairy Books will find some old friends with new faces in the Pink Fairy Book. Courage, youth, beauty, kindness, have many trials, but they always win the battle; while witches, giants, unfriendly cruel people, are on the losing hand. So it ought to be, and so, on the whole, it is and will be; and that is all the moral of fairy tales. We cannot all be young, alas! and pretty, and strong; but nothing prevents us from being kind, and no kind man, woman, or beast or bird, ever comes to anything but good in these oldest fables of the world.
Latest episodes of the podcast The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
- 00 - Preface
- 01 - The Cats Elopement
- 02 - How the Dragon was Tricked
- 03 - The Goblin and the Grocer
- 04 - The House in the Wood
- 05 - Uraschimataro and the Turtle
- 06 - The Slaying of the Tanuki
- 07 - The Flying Trunk
- 08 - The Snowman
- 09 - The Shirt-collar
- 10 - The Princess in the Chest
- 11 - The Three Brothers
- 12 - The Snow Queen
- 13 - The Fir Tree
- 14 - Hans, The Mermaid's Son
- 15 - Peter Bull
- 16 - The Bird Grip
- 17 - Snowflake
- 18 - I know what I have learned
- 19 - The Cunning Shoemaker
- 20 - The King who would have a beautiful Wife
- 21 - Catherine and her Destiny
- 22 - How the Hermit Helped to win the King's Daughter
- 23 - The Water of Life
- 24 - The Wounded Lion
- 25 - The Man Without a Heart
- 26 - The Two Brothers
- 27 - Master and Pupil
- 28 - The Golden Lion
- 29 - The Sprig of Rosemary
- 30 - The White Dove
- 31 - The Troll's Daughter
- 32 - Esben and the Witch
- 33 - Princess Minon-minette
- 34 - Maiden Bright-eye
- 35 - The Merry Wives
- 36 - King Lindorm
- 37 - The Jackal, the Dove, and the Panther
- 38 - The Little Hare
- 39 - The Sparrow with the Split Tongue
- 40 - The Story of Ciccu
- 41 - Don Giovanni De La Fortuna