People have been telling each other fairy tales for a long, long time. And all over the world! Often it is the fairy tales that were and are the first stories heard in childhood. Much has found its way into the canon of children's literature. Is it only for kids? The oldest fairy tales were not intended for them at all. It was the adults who told them to each other. Perhaps that is why until today fairy tales are stories for both the big and the little ones. For young and old.  

"Fairy Tales for Young and Old" by Zofia Stanecka is a collection of six classic fairy tales. "Little Red Riding Hood", "Three Pigs", "Cinderella", "Princess on a Pea", "Knyps with a Tip" and "Hansel and Gretel" have been retold. The author of the beloved by children "Basia" and many other excellent books, with her own eloquence, distance and sensitivity, recalls the characters and stories known to all of us, prompting us to rediscover and interpret them.

Each of the fairy tales has been provided with a short, interesting historical outline, which introduces younger and older readers to their genesis and subsequent realizations.