Tales from Perrault - Softcover

Perrault, Charles; Lawrence, Ann

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ISBN 10: 0192741756 ISBN 13: 9780192741752

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1997

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A captivating retelling of the best-loved tales of master storyteller Charles Perrault. In this edition, cleverly set as stories within a story, Perrault writes for a little girl during her summer in the country. Old favorites--"Tom Thumb," "Sleeping Beauty," "Puss in Boots," and "Bluebeard," among others--are joined by tales about fairies and giants, about wishes come true, and about why little girls with red hoods shouldn't walk through the woods alone. Lawrence adds insights into the life and times of Perrault, and stunning illustrations bring the tales vividly to life.

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Grade 3-6-- A collection of 11 fairy tales. The book begins with Madame la Marquise's daughter begging Monsieur Perrault to write stories for her over the summer when they are away. These tales then are placed inside letters to Madame la Marquis. They differ slightly from the more commonly accepted versions. For instance, in "Little Red Cap," the girl gets undressed and climbs into bed with the wolf--"where she was astonished to see what her grandmother looked like without her clothes." The wolf eats both the girl and her grandmother. After the story, "Perrault" writes, "Children had better not listen to everyone they meet, and pretty, nicely brought up little girls should be particularly careful whom they talk to. If they're not, it's no wonder they get eaten up." All the tales include a lesson. The illustrations are overly bright and, although well executed, appear ghoulish in oranges, purples, turquoise, and greens. The figures are placed in Perrault's courtly France, but the images detract from rather than enhance the tales. Both the correspondence format with its moralizing, and the stark illustrations remove the tales from a dream-like setting and attempt to place them in reality, which is unseemly and disturbing. --Regina Pauly, Free Library of Philadelphia
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