{"product_id":"russian-fairy-tales-isbn-9780679436416","title":"Russian Fairy Tales","description":"Notable for their magnificent, jewel-like color illustrations by Bilibin, these traditional tales include \"The Frog Princess,\" \"Vassilissa the Beautiful,\" and \"The White Duck.\" Though \u003cb\u003eRussian Fairy Tales\u003c\/b\u003e in the Pantheon Folklore Library is a book for adults, it has sold over 30,000 copies.Gillian Avery (1926-  ) was born in Reigate, Surrey, where she started her writing career as a journalist on the \u003ci\u003eSurrey Mirror\u003c\/i\u003e. Deciding that the pace of book publishing was more congenial than that of newspapers, she went to Oxford in 1950 to work for the Clarendon Press. In 1952 she married a don, Anthony Cockshut, and when they moved to Manchester she was so homesick for Oxford that she set her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Warden's Niece\u003c\/i\u003e (1957), in an Oxford college in Victorian times, feeling an affinity between her own pre-war generation and the Victorian child, characterized by a 'meek acceptance of the power of the adult world'. Returning to Oxford in 1964, she continued to write novels, including\u003ci\u003e A Likely Lad\u003c\/i\u003e, set in Manchester, which won the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e award for children's fiction in 1971 and was successfully dramatized as a children's TV serial.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGillian Avery is also well known as a reviewer and historian of children's literature. Her two most recent books are \u003ci\u003eBehold the Child: American Children and their Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e1621-1922\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299959099621,"sku":"NP9780679436416","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679436416.jpg?v=1767735995","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/russian-fairy-tales-isbn-9780679436416","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}