4/17/2023 0 Comments Another word for running errandsLang’s avuncular introduction has not aged very well: “We now present you (in return for a coin or two) a book about the friends of children and of fairies-the beasts. His design of a huge lion roaring at the moon on the dark blue binding is still imposing even though the cloth is shabby and the gilt faded. Ford, the main illustrator of the set, decorated this volume as well. Any old family vacation house by the sea should have a neglected cache of old books somewhere and I discovered one in the second story bedroom, where I picked out The Animal Story Book edited by Andrew Lang because it looks exactly like one of his Colour Fairy Books.
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