Picture Books and Fairy Tales • Picture Books and Fairy Tales
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Charles Perrault
This fairy tale is about a royal couple who could not have children. After much effort, the queen gave birth to a beautiful daughter.
The seven benevolent fairies gave the princess different qualities, but the old fairy, who appeared after fifty years, cursed the princess that she would impale herself on a spindle and fall asleep for a hundred years.
Perrault's Fairy Tales (1964) features ten classic stories: Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, Bluebeard, Fairies, Cinderella, Prince Charming, Thumbelina, Puss in Boots, Donkey Skin, and Beauty and the Beast. Magical stories with moral lessons in t