Friendly Fairies - Illustrated by Johnny Gruelle Hardcover – November 18, 2014

"Friendly Fairies" is a children's picture book with accompanying stories that was a bestseller in the 1920's due to its cute characters and beautiful color illustrations. The timeless appeal of the stories and illustrations captures the imagination of children today as much as it did in the past, and no doubt will in the future.

Johnny Gruelle's stories are delightful and the wonderful illustrations were much of the charm of the original books. This reprint has none of the pictures, none of the little fairies, the cute little bugs, or any of the creatures that made the originals something special to show children while reading to them

I can't rate it since it is just the text only from the original without the beautiful and charming illustrations.

Raggedy Ann & Raggedy Andy's Friendly Fairies by Johnny Gruelle (Author / Illustrator).Bobbs-Merrill Co, Inc / Howard W. Sams & Co, Inc (1960), HARDCOVER,92 pages. ©1919. (1960) ASIN: B000EACM98A reproduction of the original story book Friendly Fairies containing 15 original fairy tales written and illustrated by Gruelle. My only complaint is that the color in Gruelle's wonderful images are heavily over-saturated in this 1960 edition. If I had it to do over, I would probably splurge on an older edition.You may read the original online at gutenberg[dot]orgBook Contents:1 The Three Little Gnomes2 The Happy Rattle3 Recipe for a Happy Day4 Grandfather Skeeterhawk5 Crow Talk6 The Fairy Ring7 Mr. and Mrs. Thumbkins8 The Old, Rough Stone and The Gnarled Tree9 Sally Migrundy10 How Johnny Cricket Saw Santa Claus11 The Twin Sisters12 Little Thumbkin's Good Deed13 The Wishbone14 Tim Tim Tamytam15 A Change of Coats

My dad read these an the raggedy ann an andy series to me an my sister we had raggdy ann dolls my mom an grandma ma made me an my sister we had wonderful adventures togethers .