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.
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.
The title of the picture book, ˝San˝, is the main theme of the story. A little girl dreams and creates. This spiritual fairy tale is a kind of cosmogony and the Book of Genesis.
The hero of this fairy tale is Dobroslav - a poor, honest young man with a pure heart, but quite short. He goes out into the world, in search of a girl who will love him as he is.