Picture Books and Fairy Tales • Picture Books and Fairy Tales
Usnula ljepotica
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.
Charles Perrault may have written only 11 children's stories, but despite his modest oeuvre, he is considered one of the world's greatest children's writers.
A child, a girl, a little girl, the writer talks about her grandmother. It is a simple and honest speech about the relationship between a child and a grandmother, a child and a parent.