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Sleeping Beauty

Charles Perrault

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Spectacular Illustrations 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This book tells the traditional story of Sleeping Beauty with magnificent language, accompanied by spectacular illustrations. As in the original, Sleeping Beauty's mother is told that her dream of having a child would finally come true and that she would have a baby girl. The Queen did have the baby girl and her husband was so pleased he threw the biggest and grandest birthday party. He invited all but one person and not inviting her was the result in a terrible spell cast upon his daughter, Briar Rose. The spell was to put her to sleep on her 15th birthday, in which it did, after she touched the spinning wheel. Only a handsome man could wake her from the spell, and many years later that is what one man did. By kissing her, she returned to life and brought the whole castle life back with her. What catches the reader's attention in this particular book is the depth and colors of the illustrations. The position of the text also is very relevant in this story. Each picture is extremely detailed and shows that a great amount of thought was put into completing each page. It is very unique that the placement of the words on each page is located in some form of an opening. The text is placed in open skies, doorways, and blank walls on each page. In the beginning of the book, when the tone is darker, opening words are placed in a smaller and darker area; when Sleeping Beauty is awoken, the tone is much livelier. An example of this transition is relevant on the first two pages of the book, from the time when you are told the Queen could not have children to the time she has given birth to a baby girl. The first picture has dark colors and the trees are scary, close together and representative of a dark tone. With a turn of the page the tone takes a great positive change with open skies, doves, and vibrant colors. The text on both pages is in the middle of the darkness and then in the middle of a window. The position of the text and the illustrations are key factors in determining the over all tone and mood of the story. This book tells such an amazing story with the pictures that words are not even necessary. Children can read this book and better understand because of the colors and detail that each picture possesses. The doves that are used on the page of the birth of Briar Rose and the end of the book symbolize her life and what joy she lived. The colors in general are also used a symbol for joy and sadness, with such powerful colors meaning and representing happy times.

Editorial Review:

Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the thirteenth fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.

The Tales of Mother Goose

Charles Perrault

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The Tales of Mother Goose As First Collected by Charles Perrault in 1698 The stories include; Cinderella, Or The Little Glass Slipper, The Sleeping Beauty In The Wood, Little Thumb, The Master Cat, Or Puss In Boots Riquet Of The Tuft, Blue Beard, The Fairy, Little Red Riding-Hood.

Cinderella (Fairy Tales)

Charles Perrault

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In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper. The illustrations set the story in 1920s London.

Cinderella (Fairy Tales)

Charles Perrault

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A Unique and Compelling Cinderella 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you are a Cinderella fan, this book, illustrated by Roberto Innocenti, is a must. I have read countless versions of Cinderella and looked at numerous illustrations. I have never seen the story treated like this. Innocenti sets Cinderella in the 1920s with flapper clothes and cars (instead of a pumpkin carriage). Never fear, a glass slipper is still here. I am usually tired of Cinderella books, to be honest, but this one kept me turning pages to see what was going to happen. I have become selective in my Cinderella purchases, but I had to own this one.

The ISBN for the Roberto Innocenti version is 1568461305. The reviews for the different versions of Cinderella sometimes get confused, but this is the book you will want to get.

Fresh perspective on an old tale. 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Sweet telling of the old story. The illustrations are the recommending factor here. I personally was touched by this version because it is the only Cinderella I have seen portrayed with dark hair.

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In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper. The illustrations set the story in 1920s London.

Cinderella

Charles Perrault

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Wonderful Cinderella 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have owned a copy of this book since I was 5. The classic tale of Cinderella but with such fantastic illustrations. Sheilah Becket captures perfectly the wonder of Charles Perrault's fairy tale. A must-own for any Cinderella aficionado if only for the artwork.

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In her haste to flee the place before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.

Best Loved Stories in Song and Dance

Charles Perrault, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

This was wonderful! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 4 people found this review helpful.

My kids and I really like the GreatHall Productions audiotapes. Jim Weiss is a great narrator. The sound effects and pacing really bring the stories together.

Classic "girl" stories 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

My two daughters, ages 2 and 4, love to go to sleep to this CD. It tops their choices approximatley 2 out of 3 nights. I think it isn't as quick and easy/short as his classic sleep music CDs, but great none the less. I recommend the CD over the cassette for the simple reason that you don't have to back to their room and turn it over if they stayed awake through the first story.
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Princess Tales (Abbeville Classic Fairy Tales)

Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Charles Perrault

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A delightful boxed set of four classic fairy tales about princesses and their adventures.

Cinderella, Rumpelstiltskin, and Other Stories

Charles Perrault, Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

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Relive the tale of Cinderella, her evil stepmother, and the glass slipper, along with eight other stories, in this collection of classics from Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm.

Little Red Riding Hood and Other Stories: Children's Classics (Everyman's Library Children's Classics)

Charles Perrault

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"Puss in Boots," "Blue Beard," "Tom Thumb," and other beloved fairy tale classics, as set down by the man who first rescued them from the oral tradition in the 17th century. Contains six color plates and 30 black-and-white illustrations.

Pulgarcito (Spanish Edition)

Charles Perrault

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In this classic tale of bravery and wit outfoxing size, little Tom Thumb, the youngest of seven boys, saves his own life and the lives of his brothers two times over. Children of a poor family, the Thumb boys are first saved when Tom averts their parents' attempt to abandon the children in the woods. Days later, the boys find themselves in the home of a child-eating ogre who Tom outwits with ingenuity and cunning.

 

En este cuento clásico en que el valor y la inteligencia pesan más que el tamaño, pequeño Pulgarcito, el hijo más joven de siete, salva dos veces las vidas de si mismo y sus hermanos. Hijos de una familia pobre, los hermanos están salvados primero cuando Pulgarcito los guía a su casa después de ser abandonados por sus padres. Pocos días después, los hermanos se encuentran en la casa de un ogro que come niños, pero una vez más, Pulgarcito evita el peligro del ogro con ingenio y astucia.