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 main characters here are a mother, an actress by profession, and her daughter. Navigating the world of theater and art, and working on a play by a young author, they find their way to each other.
The novel "Autumn of the Cat" describes the childhood of a sensitive and misunderstood girl, Ilse, who grows up in difficult social conditions in post-war Germany.
Dad explains everything to the children from the beginning, from the differences between the sexes to how young people get married and become parents. Conception is explained in great detail in order to make it as easy as possible for the children to unde