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Between the covers of this books are many gateways to magical places. Go where you like and leave when you want to. Take the doors you choose in any order you wish. These treasured stories will appeal to your imagination, while directing your heart and mind toward truth and integrity.

Faerie Gold: Treasures from the Lands of Enchantment contains twenty-one stories specially selected to awaken the reader’s imagination and direct it toward God’s light.

Timeless children's classics entertain families generation after generation, while showcasing rich moral values and encouraging healthy spiritual development. P&R Classics for Young Readers offer the finest children's stories with an accelerated pace, updated language, and full-page illustrations. Enrich the reading experience by using P&R companion study guides.

Part One: Fairy Gifts

• Little Daylight by George MacDonald (from At the Back of the North Wind: 1871)
• The Fairy’s New Year Gift by Emilie Poulsson (from In the Child’s World: 1893 adapted by Frances J. Olcott in Good Stories for Great Holidays: 1914)
• Prince Cherry by Dinah Mulock Craik (from The Little Lame Prince: 1874)

Part Two: Magical Wishes

• Kenneth and the Carp by Edith Nesbit (from The Magic World: 1912)
• The Skipping Shoes by Louisa May Alcott (from Lulu’s Library, Vol. 1, A Christmas Dream: 1886)
• The Enchanted Necklace by Annie Fellows Johnston (from The Little Colonel’s House Party: 1900)

Part Three: Clever Heroes

• The Gold-Bearded Man by Andrew Lang (from The Crimson Fairy Book: 1903)
• The Princess of the Golden Castle by Katherine Pyle (from The Counterpane Fairy: 1898)
• The Gate of the Giant Scissors by Annie Fellows Johnston (from The Gate of the Giant Scissors: 1898)

Part Four: Just Rewards

• The Greedy Shepherd by Frances Browne (from Granny’s Wonderful Chair: 1857)
• Flora’s Birthday Party by Christina Rossetti (from Speaking Likenesses: 1874)
• A Lost Paradise by Andrew Lang (from The Lilac Fairy Book: 1910)
• Justnowland by E. Nesbit (from The Magic World: 1912)

Part Five: Nature’s Wonders

• The Conceited Apple-Branch by Hans Christian Andersen (written in 1852; translated into English in 1872)
• A Handful of Clay by Henry Van Dyke (from The Blue Flower: 1902)
• The Nightingale by Hans Christian Andersen (as presented by Andrew Lang in The Yellow Fairy Book: 1894)

Part Six: Heavenly Marvels

• A Christmas Star by Katherine Pyle (from The Children’s Book of Christmas Stories edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner: 1913)
• The Coming of the King by Laura E. Richards (from The Golden Windows: 1908)
• The Castle by George MacDonald (from Adela Cathcart: 1864)
• The Loveliest Rose in the World by Hans Christian Andersen (1852)
• Robin Redbreast by Selma Lagerlöf (English translation by Volma Swanston Howard: 1903) 

Endorsement

"C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien affirmed the power of fairy stories to educate the imagination and moral sensibility. Faerie Gold is a magnificent testimonial to the correctness of their judgment. This is first and foremost a book for children. But as all the greatest writers of fairy stories have insisted, adults never tire of the really great fairy stories. In addition to the anthology of classic fairy tales, the editors crowned their achievement with two sections that make it even more of a treasure—an essay defending fantasy and fairy stories and a collection of choice quotations on those same subjects."

—Leland Ryken