 Stories are pulled from "A Book of Princes and Princesses" (1969), "A Book of Giants" (1962), "A Book of Dwarfs" (1963), "A Book of Dragons" (1964), "A Book of Ghosts and Goblins" (1968), "A Book of Witches" (1965), "A Book of Mermaids" (1967), and "A Book of Wizards" (1966).There are also four previously unpublished stories.It is followed by the anthology "Folk and Fairy Tales" (1978), another collection of (mostly) previously published Manning-Sanders tales.