Award Classic Fairy Tales (Award, 1970s-1980s, illus. Gerry Embleton, ret. Kay Brown & Ian Robinson)

This series of twelve illustrated fairy tales was published in the UK by Award Publications Limited between 1978 and 1980, and appears to have been published in identical form in the US by Derrydale Publications as Derrydale Classic Fairy Tales. 

All twelve books in the series are illustrated by Gerry Embleton, with eight tales retold by Kay Brown and four by Ian Robinson. Many have two cover editions, and with these different editions some state the author and illustrator while others leave both unattributed.

Some of the individual titles in the series were republished by Award in collections of three tales as Favourite Fairy Tales and More Fairy Tales.

Favourite Fairy Tales 

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ISBN 0861631056
Award Publications 1981
Contains:
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Beauty and the Beast
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

More Fairy Tales 

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ISBN 0861631064

Award 1981, 1984, 1994

Contains: 

Jack and the Beanstalk

Hansel and Gretel

Rip van Winkle

Just to confuse matters, the three fairy tales published under the title More Fairy Tales were also published with the title Favourite Fairy Tales!

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Contains: 

Jack and the Beanstalk

Hansel and Gretel

Rip van Winkle

AWARD CLASSIC FAIRY TALES

Below are the 12 individual titles in the series (in the order listed on the back covers):

Red Riding Hood

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Retold by Ian Robinson. Illustrated by Gerry Embleton

ISBN 978 0 86163 009 2

© Award Publications Ltd. 1980

Spring House, Spring Place, London NW5, England

Printed in Belgium

Goldilocks and the Three Bears

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Retold by Ian Robinson. Illustrated by Gerry Embleton.

ISBN 0 86163 007 6

© Award Publications Ltd. 1980

Spring House, Spring Place, London NW5, England

Printed in Belgium.

Cinderella

Photo: My collection

Retold by Ian Robinson. Illustrated by Gerry Embleton.

ISBN 0 86163 006 8

© Award Publications Ltd. 1980

Spring House, Spring Place, London NW5, England

Printed in Belgium

[Note: There doesn't seem to be a different cover edition for this title]

Sleeping Beauty

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Retold by Ian Robinson. Illustrated by Gerry Embleton.

ISBN 0 86163 010 6

© Award Publications Ltd. 1980

Spring House, Spring Place, London NW5, England

Printed in Belgium by Casterman

[Note: There doesn't seem to be a different cover edition for this title]

Pinocchio

Photo: My collection

Photo credit: Etsy

Retold by Kay Brown. Illustrated by Gerry Embleton.

ISBN 0 86163 008 4

© Award Publications Ltd. 1980

Spring House, Spring Place, London NW5, England

Printed in Belgium by Casterman s.a.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Retold by Kay Brown and illustrated by Gerry Embleton.

ISBN 0 86163 011 4

© Award Publications Ltd. 1980

Spring House, Spring Place, London NW5, England

Printed in Belgium by Casterman s.a.

Jack and the Beanstalk

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Retold by Kay Brown. Illustrated by Gerry Embleton.

ISBN 0 86163 000 9

© Award Publications Ltd.

[no year given but published by Derrydale in 1978]

Spring House, Spring Place, London NW5, England

Printed in Belgium

[Note: There doesn't seem to be a different cover edition for this title]

Beauty and the Beast

Photo: My collection

Alternative cover - Photo credit: Knihobot

Retold by Kay Brown. Illustrated by Gerry Embleton

ISBN 0 86163 005 X

© Award Publications Ltd. 1978

Spring House, Spring Place, London NW5, England

Printed in Belgium by Casterman

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

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Retold by Kay Brown from the poem by Robert Browning. Illustrated by Gerry Embleton. 

ISBN 0 86163 004 1

© Award Publications Ltd. 1978

Spring House, Spring Place, London NW5, England

Printed in Belgium by Casterman

[Note: There doesn't seem to be a different cover edition for this title]

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

Photo: My collection

Retold by Kay Brown from Stories of the Arabian Nights.

Illustrated by Gerry Embleton.

ISBN 0 86163 003 3

© Award Publications Ltd. 1980

Spring House, Spring Place, London NW5, EnglandPrinted in Belgium

[Note: There doesn't seem to be a different cover edition for this title]

Rip van Winkle

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Photo credit (right): Etsy

Original story by Washington Irving. Retold by Kay Brown. Illustrated by Gerry Embleton.

ISBN 978 0 86163 001 7

© Award Publications Ltd.

Spring House, Spring Place, London NW5, England

Printed in Belgium

Hansel and Gretel

Photo credit: Etsy

ISBN 0 86163 002 15

© Award Publications Ltd. 1978

Spring House, Spring Place, London NW5, England

Printed in Belgium by Casterman

[Note: There doesn't seem to be a different cover edition for this title]