Everyman's Library Russian Fairy Tales

Nice hardbound book....Love it

Has lots of stories. Perfect. Nice pictures

I bought this for myself but ended up giving it to my niece for xmas. She loved it. I am waiting for her to finish so I can borrow it. Such beautiful illustrations and so well bound.

The book contains around eleven Russian Fairy tales which are very well translated/retold, difficult Russian names dont bother much in the stories. This makes reading smooth and enjoyable.What makes the book attractive is the numerous illustrations for the size of the book. There are 3 double page illustrations, 24 full page illustrations and more than a dozen quarter page illustrations. The illustrations by Ivan Bilibin are awesome and depict Russian themes very well in its colors and hues.Somehow, the paintings are not produced very bright and seem somewhat muddy. Not sure whether it is poor printing or the original illustrations are not preserved well. Surely it could have been much better, still it does offer a very different styling of illustrations for a fairy tales book.For such nice stories and gorgeous illustrations, publishers could have made this book a grand offering with extra large size using glossy white papers. This would have brought Bilibin's illustrations more vivid and it would have been a tribute to the art and artist. I am on lookout for such an edition.Recommended Age for self reading : 10+This review is for Hardcover edition of Everyman's Library CHILDREN'S CLASSICS (ISBN : 978-1857159356)

Love the tables and the illustrations, and the hardback version.