Puss in Boots & Felicia and the Pot of Pinks
Narrated by Andrew Bond
Puss in Boots & Felicia and the Pot of Pinks brings together two classic French fairy tales in one calm bedtime collection, read softly by Andrew Bond.
The first story follows a poor miller's youngest son, who inherits nothing when his father dies but a clever cat. The cat asks only for a pair of boots and a sack, then sets out to make his master's fortune. He catches game to win the king's favor, tricks farmers into claiming their fields for his master, and outwits a shape-shifting ogre by daring him to turn into a mouse. By the end, a penniless young man is a lord with a castle and a princess to marry. It's a playful tale about wit winning out over wealth, first written down by Charles Perrault more than three hundred years ago.
The second story, from the French fairy tale writer Madame d'Aulnoy, follows Felicia through a world of enchanted courts, royal tests, and a pot of pink flowers that carries its own quiet magic. Like much of d'Aulnoy's work, it moves at a dreamy, old-fashioned pace, full of the charm and gentle strangeness that mark the golden age of French fairy tales.
These two French tales suit anyone who loves clever-animal stories and old-world magic in the line of Perrault and the Grimms. Nothing here will startle you — only witty tricksters and kind endings — and Andrew Bond reads warm and slow, letting the miller's cat and Felicia's small pink flowers see you gently off to sleep.
