As Novalis said, »Everything is a fairy tale.« But not all fairy tale anthologies are like The Giant Book of Fairy Tales by Tatjana Hauptmann – a true classic for the entire family, a book of magical beauty. This collection of the 100 best fairy tales from Europe is magnificently adorned with a colourful and enchanting palette of 600 drawings and watercolours.

For all those who have always shied away from the sheer length of the original Urs Widmer has carefully abridged the wonderful Tales From the Arabian Nights while preserving their oriental flavour. Highly vivid and amusing, he recounts the six most famous tales of the immortal Sheherazade: The Fisherman and the Jinni, Alibaba and the Forty Thieves, Aladdin and the Magic Lamp, The Magic Horse, The Adventures of Haroun-al-Raschid, and Sinbad the Sailor.
As Hermann Hesse pointed out, the original of this great collection of fairytales is »a source of infinite pleasures and the most opulent picture book in the world«. To ensure that this holds true, Tatjana Hauptmann has richly illustrated this work, conveying Oriental lavishness and subtlety.

In six decades, Tomi Ungerer has created a collection of work that can hardly be beaten in terms of variety. He is renowned as a poetic and cheeky children's author, for his idyllist illustrations in the ›Big Songbook‹, as a societal satirist, as a genial graphic artist in advertising, as an illustrator, empathic autobiographer and vicious aphorist – in short, as an artist and author who has produced tens of thousands of drawings and over 100 books published by Diogenes alone. When it comes to Tomi Ungerer, there is one thing you can expect: the unexpected. This motto, Ungerer's own, unites this collection of essays about this exceptional artist – by Manuel Gasser, Walter Killy, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Werner Spies, Anna Gavalda and Elke Heidenreich amongst others, including some texts by Tomi Ungerer himself.