Picture Books and Fairy Tales • Children's books
Five Favourite Bedtime Tales
Ladybird Books Staff
A timeless collection of treasured stories that generations of children have grown up with and loved. These easy-to-read retellings, enchanced by beautiful illustrations, capture all the charm of the original stories.
"The Vanishing World" (1968) by Josef Auguste is a popular science book that depicts the life of ancient animals and plants through interesting stories and illustrations.
Grigor Vitez (1911–1966), one of the most beloved Croatian poets for children, published the collection "One Hundred Wolves and Other Poems for Children" in 1957, which quickly became a classic of children's literature.
The author of about twenty stories published in this collection is a well-known journalist and travel writer. For more than twenty years, during his travels around the world, he recorded true events in which the main characters are animals.