 She writes in the foreword to a 1971 anthology, "A Choice of Magic"
Some of Manning-Saunders's fairy-tale compilations include a discursive foreword on the origins of the tales retold.The stories in "A Book of Dragons" hail from Greece, China, Japan, North Macedonia, Ireland, Romania, Germany and elsewhere.She goes out of her way to say "not all dragons want to gobble up princesses."