Mostly Magic

Overview:

• Title: Mostly Magic
• Author: Nora Beust, Phyllis Fenner, Bernice E. Leary, Mary Katharine Reely, Dora V. Smith
• Year: 1958
• ISBN-10: 0717214508
• Publisher: Grolier Incorporated
• Pages: xiv+345
• Binding: Hardcover
• Type: Anthology
• Title Reference: Teeny-Tiny
• Notes: From copyright page:
  • © Copyright 1958, Grolier Incorporated
  • Standard Book Number 7172-1450-8 (ISBN derived from this)
  • LCCN: 58-5038
  • Designer: Ernst Reichl
  Cover artist not specifically credited, but the artist style matches illustrations done by Jo Spier. The same artist did a few spot illustrations within the book on pp. i-vii
  Interior artists are credited only once for each story, though there are usually multiple illustrations throughout each story
  The following stories have the author credited "retold by":
  • The Pancake
  • The Three Billy Goats Gruff
  • The Story of the Three Bears
  • The Story of the Three Little Pigs
  • The Little Engine That Could
  • The Cock, the Mouse, and the Little Red Hen
  • Budulinek
  • The Cat and the Parrot
  • The History of Tom Thumb
  • Whittington and His Cat
  • Jack and the Beanstalk
  • Lazy Jack
  • Mighty Mikko
  • The Golden Cobwebs
  • Teeny-Tiny
  The following works indicate the "author" is actually the editor, with no other author credited:
  • "The Princess and the Glass Hill"
  • "The Half-Chick"
  The following were edited by Andrew Lang:
  • "The Brave Little Tailor"
  • "Little One-eye, Little Two-eyes, and Little Three-eyes"
  • "Rumpelstiltzkin"
  • "Hansel and Gretel"
  The following were translated by E. V. Lucas, Lucy Crane, and Marian Edwardes:
  • "The Elves and the Shoemaker"
  • "The Twelve Dancing Princesses"
  • "Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs"
  The following were translated by Wanda Gág:
  • "The Musicians of Bremen"
  • "Six Servants"
  "The Tinder-Box" was translated by Paul Leyssac