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.

The artist Tatjana Hauptmann, recipient of many international awards, spent several years working on her meticulous illustrations of ›The Great Book of Legends‹. The Best Medieval Legends of Gods, Heroes and Knights, edited by Johannes Carstensen. The result is two beautiful volumes, the first of which has now been issued. The unique drawings and colour plates breathe life into the world of the Nibelungen, King Arthur, Robin Hood, Tristan and Isolde and many others, and take us to a land of fantasy which it is always a joy to visit.

The world-famous story of the wondrous transformation of the miser Ebeneezer Scrooge, with enchanting illustrations by Tatjana Hauptmann.

One of the greatest stories for children has now been illustrated by the great artist and renowned illustrator Tatjana Hauptmann. Everyone knows Peter Pan and Wendy, the fairy Tinkerbell and the Lost Boys, Captain Hook with his pirate ship the Jolly Roger. But you have never seen the story of the boy who refused to grow up like this: With her dreamlike playful illustrations in magnificent full colour, Tatjana Hauptmann has created an opulent masterpiece, a delight for the eyes, the perfect depiction of a land inhabited by fairies and home to the cheekiest boy in the world. More than 50 mainly colour illustrations by Tatjana Hauptmann.

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.

The most beautiful German ballads – with fairy-tale illustrations by Tatjana Hauptmann. Let us tell of beckoning mermaids and of men up to their necks in water, of friends who will never be separated, of mourning husbands and fathers, of human anger and divine revenge, but also of fools who appease the gods and dogs who still know the meaning of good manners. As varied as the ballad’s themes, so diverse are its forms: broadside ballads and folk songs alongside lyrical ballads, farces and parodies. The ballad can do anything, but there is one thing it always has to be: ›dramatic‹ – according to Goethe, at least. And so this collection brings together a selection of the most exciting, the saddest and funniest German ballads, starting with the unhappy prince and princess, moving on to the lyrical ballads of Burger, Goethe, Schiller and Meyer, up to the humorous work of Morgenstern – delightfully illustrated by Tatjana Hauptmann.