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Scott Gustafson's Classic Fairy Tales has some incredible painted illustrations. It's worth a look just for the artwork by itself.

The Book People have this set of 20 Usborne classic stories. link
This is a wonderful collection, but for slightly older children.
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You need the Helen Oxenbury Nursery Collection, its showing for mad prices on Amazon but you can get it for a couple of quid via abebooks

My dd got given a fairy tale storybook from m&s great traditional stories in it def recommend

The individual ones from M&S are pretty good and without any gorey details!

I was going to suggest Usbourne too. DD got a nice one for christmas.

Usbourne do a nice collection of fairy tales...

Thank you Lavenderhoney, I usually get from book depository, so will see if they have the Puffin one.

Puffin do a compilation of fairly tales and nursery rhymes. Don't buy the Disney book abroad they have dreadful grammatical mistakes! You will find yourself stoping and thinking " what?"

I tell mine them from memory. And I buy Winnie the pooh etc from book depository as its free shipping abroad.

ooh thanks, I wonder if they ship internationally though...

You can still but Ladybird books from their website.

I thought my almost 3 yo ds ought to know the most famous fairy tales (Goldilocks, Snow White etc), since they're always re-enacting them on Playschool and discussing them in Primary school.

Without thinking, I bought him a cheapish compilation from local supermarket. The versions of the stories are even more gruesome than usual. Yes, I know fairy tales aren't that nice - but this is ridiculous. The giant from Jack and The Beanstalk is pictured with a gun & Daddy Bear says the most horrible things! There is a lot of gory detail surrounding the killing, eating, cutting open etc of various characters. DS always asks me to read them & I find myself missing out chunks & making up alternative endings!

So, can anybody recommend me a fairly 'nice' book of fairy tales?!