Nine Unlikely Tales for Children - Edith Nesbit

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Title: Nine Unlikely Tales for Children Author: Edith Nesbit Genre: Short stories, childrens Rating: 9/10 # pages: Audiobook Date read: May, 2008

Summary: Nine original and, yes, unlikely fairy-tales, which include stories of the arithmetic fairy, the king who became a charming villa-residence and the dreadful automatic nagging machine.

All are classic-Nesbit: charming, novel and not afraid to squeeze in a moral or two - told with proper fairy-tale style.

Review: Really sweet short stories, and while they proclaim to be "unlikely tales", there are also some traditional fairy-tales included - and those happened to be my favourites of the lot. Especially "The Prince, Two Mice, and Some Kitchen-Maids" which was recommended to me by a friend many, many, many years ago, but which I'd forgotten all about, and didn't even know was written by Edith Nesbit until I suddenly heard it here. I'll be telling these to my kids once I get some.

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