A Choice of Magic

{{short description|1971 book by Ruth Manning-Sanders}}

{{infobox book |

| name = A Choice of Magic

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| translator =

| image = File:AChoiceOfMagic.jpg

| caption = First edition

| author = Ruth Manning-Sanders

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| illustrator = Robin Jacques

| country = United States

| language = English

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| genre = Fairy Tales

| publisher = E. P. Dutton

| release_date = 1971

| media_type = Print (hardcover)

| pages = 319 pp

| isbn = 0-525-27810-9

| dewey= 398.21

| congress= PZ8.M333 Ch

| oclc= 257122

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A Choice of Magic is a 1971 anthology of 32 fairy tales from around the world that have been collected and retold by Ruth Manning-Sanders. In fact, the book is mostly a collection of tales published in previous Manning-Sanders anthologies.{{Cite book |last=Sutherland |first=Zena |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UaIl2ebmxm8C |title=The Best in Children's Books: The University of Chicago Guide to Children's Literature, 1966-1972 |date=1973 |publisher=University of Chicago Press |isbn=978-0-226-78057-3 |pages=271 |language=en}}{{Cite news |date=4 June 1972 |title=Fiction for Ages 8-12 |pages=F6 |work=The Courier-Journal |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/110079118/?terms=%22A%20Choice%20of%20Magic%22&match=1}} Stories are pulled from A Book of Princes and Princesses (1969), A Book of Giants (1962), A Book of Dwarfs (1963), A Book of Dragons (1964), A Book of Ghosts and Goblins (1968), A Book of Witches (1965), A Book of Mermaids (1967), and A Book of Wizards (1966).{{Cite news |last=Quigley |first=Isabel |date=29 May 1971 |title=Isabel Quigley on children's folk tales, picture books and fiction |pages=37 |work=The Spectator |url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/page/29th-may-1971/37}} There are also four previously unpublished stories.

It is followed by the anthology Folk and Fairy Tales (1978), another collection of (mostly) previously published Manning-Sanders tales.