Description:  The second of two fairy tale anthologies for 9 year olds, containing stories specially chosen to appeal to this age. Two complete books are included in this volume: Mulock's The Little Lame Prince and Dunbar's Sons o' Cormac. Almost all the other selections are literary fairy tales as well, including four from Kipling's Just So Stories and three from Browne's Granny's Wonderful Chair. Seven different books are the source for the rest of the tales. Numerous illustrations, some in color, accompany many of the selections.

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1. How the Whale Got His Throat
2. The Valiant Little Tailor
3. The Lords of the White and Grey Castles
4. Rocking-Horse Land
5. The Prince That Married a Nixie
6. The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
7. The Christening
8. Changes in the Palace
9. A Distant Tower
10. The Travelling-Cloak
11. Through the Skylight
12. Living Creatures
13. Stirrings of Ambition
14. Bewildered
15. Helpless No More
16. A People To Serve
17. The Beginning of the Armadillos
18. The Story of Childe Charity
19. The Gods Know!
20. The Worker in Sandalwood
21. The Princess Who Had But One Accomplishment

22. The Constant Green Jerkin
23. The Harvestin' o' Dermond
24. Eiveen Cold-Heart
25. The Questin' o' Cleena
26. Ethlenn o' the Mist
27. Wild Apples an' Golden Grain
28. King Diarmid an' Pol
29. Fair Ailinn
30. The Servin' o' Culain
31. How Cormac Lost His Kingdom
32. Wind an' Wave an' Wandherin' Flame
33. Grainne the Haughty
34. Light o' Me Eyes
35. Conn the Boaster
36. The King o' the Three Winds
37. The Cat That Walked by Himself
38. The Stone Lion
39. The Weaver's Lass
40. Nose, the Dwarf
41. Bergamot
42. Sour and Civil