The Nursery Collection brings together the world's best-loved traditional stories and nursery rhymes. Retold with very young children in mind, the stories are excellent for reading aloud while the …
To repay her father's debts, Mirabelle promises the King that she'll spin his straw into gold. An evil troll agrees to help her for a price. Now, Mirabelle must repay an even greater debt, unless s…
"Adult and child can delight together in the richness of color, gilt and detail...captured in such art. The story is palinly and gracefully told."--The New York Times Book Review"A lush and substan…
“Spinning straw into gold is easy as can be! But if I do that for you, what will you give me?” A silly miller boasts to the king that his daughter can spin straw into gold. But who will help wh…
When the old miller dies, his youngest son has no means to make an honest living. All he has inherited is a cat. But what a cat it is! Equipped with an elegant pair of boots to give him the necessa…
This is the story of the vain emperor who is duped by a wily tailor who tells him that the clothes he makes are so glorious that they cannot be seen by fools.
There was once a miller who was very poor. He had three sons. The elder sons were lazy, but the youngest was hard-working. When the miller died, there were only his mill, his donkey and his cat t…
Once there was a poor miller's son who was lucky enough to have a very intelligent cat. The cat was called Puss in Boots, because he always dressed very grandly. And Puss in Boots was constantly lo…
Once there was a little emperor who loved to dress up in fine clothes. He had hundreds of rich robes, capes, and boots, and every morning he spent hours deciding what to wear. But the emperor was n…
Once, long ago, there lived an emperor who had a great fondness for beautiful clothes. He card so much about his wardrobe that he had more tailors than soldiers. He attended every social event, and…