The Blue Fairy Book is a series of 25 compilations of factual and
made-up stories for kids that Andrew Lang and his wife, Leonora Blanche
Alleyne, produced between 1889 and 1913. The 12 collections of fairy
tales that make up Andrew Lang's "Colored" Fairy Books or Andrew Lang's
Fairy Books of Many Colors are the most well-known books in the series.
Along with the 153 poems in The Blue Poetry Book, the volumes contain a
total of 798 stories. The majority of the labor was done by Nora, even
though Andrew is frequently given credit for choosing the stories in the
Fairy Books. These were translated into English by her and a group of
writers, largely women, including May Kendall and Violet Hunt, who
modified them to fit Victorian and Edwardian expectations of decorum.
The Green Fairy Book, the third book in the series, is where Nora's
contribution is first acknowledged. She is then given the following
name: "Madame Lang " and writes the majority of the retellings. Henry
Justice Ford illustrated The Red Book of Heroes (1909) and The Book of
The 12 Colored Fairy Books; credit for the first two volumes was split
between G. P. Jacomb-Hood and Lancelot Speed.