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.
After the flood, a fisherman and his wife live on an old ship. The sea has swallowed the land, the cities have sunk, and the fish have almost disappeared, so the fisherman and the woman are barely surviving.
There aren't too many smileys lately. In fact, there are very few of them. People, and even children, laugh too little. There has been a great lack of genuine laughter on Earth.