A Book of Magic Animals

infobox Book |
name = A Book of Magic Animals
title_orig =
translator =
author = Ruth Manning-Sanders
cover_artist = Robin Jacques
illustrator = Robin Jacques
country = United States
language = English
series =
genre = Fairy Tales
publisher = E. P. Dutton
release_date = 1975
media_type = Print (hardcover)
pages = 127 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-525-26935-5

A Book of Magic Animals is a 1975 anthology of 11 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. It is one in a long series of such anthologies by Manning-Sanders. This book was first published in the United Kingdom in 1974, by Methuen & Co. Ltd.

Some of tales from this book are recollected in "Folk and Fairy Tales" (1978) by Manning-Sanders.

The dust jacket states: "Once again, Ruth Manning-Sanders dips into her infinite store of folk material ... this time about animals who use their magic powers to interfere in the lives of humans. They bring about seemingly impossible marriages, avenge horrible wrongs, protect people from very strange villains as well as their own stupidity, and occasionally shock the reader by turning out to be humans themselves -- under a curse."

Table of contents

*1. The North-west Wind (Brittany)
*2. The Little Humpbacked Horse (Russia)
*3. Mainu the Frog (Africa)
*4. Lilla Rosa (Sweden)
*5. Eh! Eh! Tralala! (Russia)
*6. The Small-tooth Dog (England)
*7. The Dolphin (Mallorca)
*8. Little Barbette (Brittany)
*9. Jon and his Brothers (French Canada)
*10. Bull's Winter House (Russia)
*11. Elsa and the Bear (Germany)