2. The lad and the fox.
Best versions:
Djurklon. Fairy tales from the Swedish.
Wiggin and Smith. Tales of laughter.
1. Three bears.
Best versions:
Jacobs. English fairy tales.
Lang. Green fairy book.
Other versions:
Arnold and Gilbert. Stepping stones to literature, v. 2.
Bailey. Firelight stories.
Bailey and Lewis. For the children's hour.
Baldwin. Fairy stories and fables.
Blaisdell. Child life in tale and fable. (Silver locks.)
Boston collection of kindergarten stories.
Brooke. Story of the three bears.
Bryant. How to tell stories.
Coussens. Child's book of stories. (Goldilocks.)
Crane. Mother Hubbard picture book.
Darton. Wonder book of beasts. (Adapted.)
Grover. Folk-lore readers, bk. 1.
Howard. Banbury Cross stories.
Jerrold. Big book of fairy tales.
Lang. Snow man and other stories.
Lansing. Rhymes and stories.
Mabie. Fairy tales every child should know.
McMurry. Classic stories.
Norton. Heart of oak books, v. 2.
O'Shea. Six nursery classics.
Rhys. English fairy book.
Scudder. Book of folk stories.
Scudder. Children's book.
Summers. Readers. 1st year.
Tappan. Folk stories and fables.
Thompson. Fairy tale and fable.
Tileston. Children's hour.
Tileston. Sugar and spice.
Valentine. Aunt Louisa's book of fairy tales.
Valentine. Old, old fairy tales.
In Jacobs' English fairy tales and Lang's Green fairy
book, a version by Southey has been followed exactly.
In some of the other versions a little girl has been
substituted for the old woman and there are minor
variations. In Mrs. Valentine's Old, old fairy tales,
the story has been greatly changed and lengthened.
Compare Scrapefoot in
Jacobs. More English fairy tales.