Charles Perrault
France, Published 1697
The tales Perrault collected at the French court: rose and gold, candlelight, chateaux and formal gardens, with a rhyming moral at the end of each.
The tales
Ages 4-9
Cinderella
A girl is made to sleep in the ashes by her stepmother and stepsisters while they go to the ball. With help from her godmother she gets one night out, one beautiful dress, and one warning: be home by midnight. She very nearly is.
9 min readCharles PerraultRead itAges 4-9
Little Red Riding Hood
A girl in a red hood takes a basket to her grandmother's cottage and meets a wolf on the path who asks exactly the right questions. He gets there first. What follows is the most famous conversation in any fairy tale, and it does not end the way she expects.
7 min readCharles PerraultRead itAges 4-9
Sleeping Beauty
A fairy nobody remembered to invite curses a newborn princess to die on a spindle. A younger fairy, hiding behind the curtain with her gift still unspent, cannot undo it and argues it down to a hundred years of sleep instead. In Perrault's original there is no kiss at the end. The hundred years is simply up.
9 min readCharles PerraultRead itAges 5-10
Puss in Boots
A miller leaves his youngest son a cat. The cat asks for a bag and a pair of boots, invents a nobleman called the Marquis de Carabas, and spends three months lying to a king on his master's behalf. There is a river, a field of frightened mowers, and an ogre who should never have taken the bait.
8 min readCharles PerraultRead it
Coming from this collection
Ordered by how often families search for them.
- #45 Bluebeard
- #77 Diamonds and Toads
- #78 Donkeyskin
- #95 Griselda
- #98 Hop-o'-My-Thumb
- #140 Ricky of the Tuft
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