9 views•1 reads
About this book
Charles Perrault’s collection brings together fairy tales of magic, family hardship, and social ambition, with clear consequences that make them apt for young readers. At a fountain, a fairy curses a rude girl so that reptiles emerge whenever she speaks, turning bad manners into a physical punishment. In “Puss in Boots,” the cat frightens mowers into declaring a meadow his master’s, making the rise of the supposed Marquis depend on a clever lie. Little Thumb, by contrast, uses stones dropped along the forest path to lead his brothers home.
