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.
This is an interesting story about a wandering magic umbrella that saves its current - alone, sad, mournful, dissatisfied, frowning - owners from the rain, but even more so - from dissatisfaction, unhappiness, sadness.
The writer in this real-life fairy tale, as in her other stories, is both a teacher and a prophetess. It describes the bat, our distant mammalian relative that flies out at dusk and flies at night.
Mica Lakomica is a very easy-going cat, who catches a goldfish at the very beginning of the novel, but because of her easy-goingness, is left without it.