Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper in her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect won the 1955 Caldec…
From Book Synopsis: Andersen's fairy tales, which have been translated into more than 125 languages, have become culturally embedded in the West's collective consciousness, readily accessible to childr…
Thumbelina is born from a grain of barley planted in the ground: as beautiful as a flower but small as a thumb, the child amazes with her beauty and her sweet voice all those she meets. But, when she …
Here are the original eight stories from the 1697 volume Contes de temps passé by the great Charles Perrault (1628–1703) in a translation that retains the charming and unsentimental simplicity that ha…
Six unfortunate young men were turned into swans by their stepmother. Their heart-broken sister vows to release them from the spell by sewing six shirts from starflowers and not utter a word, or laugh…
For over one hundred years The Ugly Duckling has been a childhood favorite, and Jerry Pinkney's spectacular new adaptation brings it triumphantly to new generations of readers. With keen emotion and f…
"Было когда-то двадцать пять оловянных солдатиков, родных братьев по матери... Все солдатики были совершенно одинаковы, кроме одного, который был на одной ноге. Его отливали последним, и олова немножк…
Reprinted here for the first time since the 19th century, these color illustrations by T. Pym make the classic Andersen fairy tale even more magical. One of Andersen's best-beloved tales, The Snow Que…
Beauty and the Beast; tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme... This is the best known version of the original story that inspired Walt Disney’s classic and has been retold countless times and adap…
