Book 3

Cinderella

by Charles Perrault

Published 22 October 1970
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.

Book 5

Sleeping Beauty

by Charles Perrault

Published 21 August 1975
Disgruntled at not being invited to the princess' christening, the wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for a hundred years.

Book 10

Little Red Riding Hood

by Charles Perrault

Published 28 September 1972
This collection of eight French contes collected by Charles Perrault in the last decade of the seventeenth century, contains perhaps the most famous fairy stories of all time - 'Cinderella', 'The Sleeping Beauty', 'Puss in Boots', 'Blue Beard' and of couse the eponymous 'Little Red Riding Hood'. It quickly became the standard version of stories on these themes, was translated into innumerable languages and then re-entered the oral tradition of most European countries, particularly England. The Everyman edition contains the classic Heath Robinson illustrations from 1921.

Book 11

Puss in Boots

by Charles Perrault

Published July 1967
A retelling of the French fairy tale in which a clever cat wins his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.