1st Edition
Green Magic The World’s Best Fairy Tales Collected and Arranged by Romer Wilson
CONTENTS
Preface - Jack Zipes
Introduction - Romer Wilson
Puss in Boots - Charles Perrault
Fortunatus and the Wishing Cap - Laura Valentine
The Round Castle of the Red Sea - Charles Marius Barbeau and Gregory MacDonald
The Wolf’s Bride - Diamond Jenness
The Musicians of Bremen - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Rapunzel - Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
The Shirt Collar - Hans Christian Andersen
The Ut-Röst Cormorants - Peter Christen Asbjörnsen and Engebretsen Moe
The Nightingale - Hans Christian Andersen
The Lake Princess - Herbert Giles and Pu Singling
Ali Baba - Antoine Galland
The Man Who Understood Animals’ Conversation -Charles Fillingham Coxwell
The Brotherless Girl -Charles Fillingham Coxwell
The Water King and the Wise Vasilissa -William Ralston
Foolish John - Charles Fillingham Coxwell
The Golden Apple-Tree and the Nine Peahens - Elodie L. Mijaatowitch
Stan Bolovan - Mite Kremnizt
The Golden Twins - Peter Isperescu
Perseus - Charles Kingsley
Tom, Dick and Harry - Ignacz Kunos
Biography
Jack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his scholarly work, he is an active storyteller in public schools and has written and translated fairy tales for children and adults. Some of his recent publications include: Grimm Legacies: The Magic Power of Fairy Tales (2014) and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: An Anthology of Magical Tales (2017). In 2019, he founded his own press called Little Mole and Honey Bear and has published The Giant Ohl and Tiny Tim (2019), Johnny Breadless (2020), Yussuf the Ostrich (2020), Keedle the Great and All You Want to Know about Fascism (2020) and Tistou, The Boy with the Green Thumbs of Peace (2021).
"Wilson’s playful paratexts and advice to readers that they must each discover the truth of a tale themselves make it evident that her priority is not presenting texts as a folklorist would but giving readers permission to engage them imaginatively on their own terms. After all, Wilson was not a scholar but a novelist—one possessing a mind that was not only erudite but also playful. Her diverse selection of fairy tales challenges and encourages readers to read the tales without the sober paratextual guidance of a conventional editor and to be dazzled by the imaginative words and worlds they encounter. In recovering Green Magic, Silver Magic, and Red Magic, Zipes gives Romer Wilson a chance to remind us that fairy tales are also about play."
--Donald Haase
