I've read and reviewed each of the two volumes in this collection separately, so this is basically just for my own records. I unearthed these childhood staples from a bookshelf recently and was delighted to find that, though I haven't read them for 20+ years, I still remember parts of them very clearly, even if I didn't remember where the lines came from. "The huntsman's heart began to flutter / it melted like a pound of butter" is engraved on my memory, for instance, and there it was! I can't tell you how many times I read these two books as a kid. It was LOTS, that's for sure, and now that I've rediscovered them I'll no doubt be reading them lots again.