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The Blue Fairy Book app for iPhone and iPad


4.3 ( 5583 ratings )
Entertainment Book
Developer: Matthew Szenher
Free
Current version: 1.0, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 04 Apr 2009
App size: 347.25 Kb

***If you like the Blue Fairy Book, youll also enjoy our eBook titled “Andrew Langs Fairy Tales: The "Colored" Fairy Books and The Arabian Nights.” This eBook contains all TWELVE of Langs colored fairy books along with his edition of The Arabian Nights Entertainments. Well over 450 stories in all!***

“The Blue Fairy Book” is a collection of fairy tales compiled by Andrew Lang and published in the late 19th century. This and other of Langs books were some of the first compilations of fairy tales published in English.

The complete list of stories in this eBook is as follows:

The bronze ring
Prince Hyacinth and the dear little princess
East of the sun and West of the moon
The yellow dwarf
Little Red Riding-Hood
The sleeping beauty in the wood
Cinderella; or, the little glass slipper
Aladdin and the wonderful lamp
The tale of a youth who set out to learn what fear was
Rumpelstiltzkin
Beauty and the Beast
The Master-Maid
Why the sea is salt
The Master cat; or, Puss in boots
Felicia and the pot of pinks
The white cat
The gold-spinners
The terrible head
The story of pretty Goldilocks
The history of Whittington
The wonderful sheep
Little Thumb
The forty thieves
Hansel and Grettel
Snow-White and Rose-Red
The goose-girl
Toads and diamonds
Prince Darling
Blue Beard
Trusty John
The brave little tailor
A voyage to Lilliput
The princess on the glass hill
The story of Prince Ahmed and the fairy Paribanou
The history of Jack the giant-killer
The black bull of Norroway
The Red Etin

HOW TO USE THE EBOOK:
You can read through the text with the following commands:
+When reading a chapter, swipe to the left to go to the next page.
+Swipe to the right to go to the previous page.
+Double-tap the screen to move to the beginning of a chapter.
+Click on Start where I left off... to continue reading at the point at which you last closed the eBook.

The eBook application allows you to change the texts font type, color and size as well as the color of the background. These settings will be saved when the application is closed and automatically applied when the eBook is opened again.

The application keeps track of your current position in the text as you read and saves this position when you close the application. Upon relaunching the application, you can easily resume reading at the position of this virtual bookmark.

These instructions are repeated in the eBook application.

Please note that when you first open a chapter, the application takes two or three seconds to perform certain initialization operations before the text appears. The same is true when you change font and/or color settings.

Languages: English

Requirements:
Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch
Requires iPhone 2.2 Software Update
iPhone OS 3.0 Tested