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Sir Green Hat and the Wizard
First edition
Author Ruth Manning-Sanders
Illustrator William Stobbs
Cover artist William Stobbs
LanguageEnglish
Genre Fairy Tales
Publisher Methuen & Co. Ltd.
Publication date
1974
Publication placeGreat Britain
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages173 pp
ISBN 9780416779004
OCLC 868835

Sir Green Hat and the Wizard is a 1974 anthology of 14 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders.

Table of contents

  • 1. Sir Green Hat and the Wizard ( Denmark)
  • 2. The Little Jizo (Japan)
  • 3. The Tailor and the Hunter ( Austria)
  • 4. The Porridge Pot ( Hanover)
  • 5. The Blue-grey Fleece ( Mongolia)
1. The Old Man and Woman
2. The Yellow-headed Swans
  • 6. The Crane's Purse (Russia)
  • 7. Voo-too-koo ( Zulu, South Africa)
  • 8. Hassan the Ropemaker ( Arabia)
  • 9. The All-seeing Sun ( Sicily)
  • 10. Pippi Menou and the Hanging Palace ( Brittany)
  • 11. Plain Peter ( Bavaria)
  • 12. The Glassy Bridge ( Pomerania)
  • 13. Gold Lambs and Silver Lambs ( Slavonia)
  • 14. Vanka (Russia)

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