Charles Perrault
The 1697 tales behind Cinderella and Puss in Boots, told across all three of our shows.
Charles Perrault set down his fairy tales in 1697, and the versions he fixed on paper are the ones the world still tells. Cinderella's slipper, the fairy godmother, midnight itself as a deadline: that furniture is his.
He is also the only author whose recordings span all three of our shows. Cinderella runs on Get Sleepy, retold by Alicia Steffann and read by Thomas Jones, and on The Sleepy Bookshelf in Elizabeth Grace's reading, so the same story is available in two tellings. If you already use one show nightly, stay with its voice; this tale forgives repetition better than almost anything else we publish.
The Fairytales of Charles Perrault folds his most famous stories into one soft collection on The Sleepy Bookshelf, the right entry when a single tale feels too brief. Puss in Boots & Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, read by Andrew Bond on Send Me To Sleep, pairs two French tales in one sitting and rounds out the set.
