The Fairytales of Charles Perrault

The Fairytales of Charles Perrault folds the French storyteller's most famous tales in one soft bedtime reading.

Charles Perrault wrote these stories in France over three hundred years ago, and they went on to shape fairy tales as we know them. Here are glass slippers and midnight deadlines, a girl in a red hood walking through the woods, a clever cat in tall boots, and a sleeping princess waiting a hundred years to wake. Kings, woodcutters, fairies, and wolves move through short, simple stories built for telling aloud, each one carrying the old, familiar shape of once-upon-a-time.

This is classic French folklore at its root, the source behind so many fairy tales retold since, full of magic, transformation, and a light moral tucked at the end of each story. If Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Little Red Riding Hood shaped your childhood, this is the chance to hear those tales close to their original form rather than as modern retellings.

Elizabeth Grace leaves quiet space between one tale and the next. Nothing here is frightening or in a hurry; each short story takes you a little further from the day, until Perrault's old, well-worn tales ease you under.