American Fairy Tales is a book of short stories written by L. Frank Baum and published in 1901 by the George M. Hill Co. The stories in the collection were serialized in five major newspapers, The Cincinnati Enquirer, The Pittsburgh Dispatch, The Boston Post, The St. Louis Republic, and The Chicago Chronicle, between 3 March and 19 May 1901; the book followed in October of the same year. The first three newspapers used or adapted the book's illustrations for the stories, while the Republic and the Chronicle substituted artwork from their own staffs.