世界有四大著名童话：《安徒生童话》、《格林童话》、《快乐王子》、《一千零一夜》（又名《天方夜谭》）。人类的童话作家两大最杰出的代表都是北欧人，丹麦的安徒生和瑞典的塞尔玛·拉格霍芙。本书所选的大都是其中的名篇，像安徒生的，格林的，豪夫的，王尔德的等。人类童话发展源远流长，古代的神话与民间故事也可算是童话的一种。(There are four famous fairy tales in the world: Anderson’s Fairy Tales, Grimm’s Fairy Tales, The Happy Prince, The Thousand and One Nights (alternate name Arabian Nights). The two excellent representatives of human fairy tale writers are Nordic, Han Christian Anderson of Denmark and Selma Lage Hoff of Sweden. Most selected in this book are famous works of them, like Anderson’s, Green’s, Hoff’s, Wilde’s etc. The development of human fairy tales has a profound history. Ancient myth and folk stories are also one type of fairy tales. )