Description
Near Fine dust jacket illustrated with Cinderella in a garden with a decorative border in front and Cinderella reading on the back cover. The Near Fine binding is blue paper over boards, black cloth backed, with light blue lettering on the spine. Illustrated end papers. Color illustrations throughout by Michael Hague. The binding is tight and the pages are clean. The book measures 10.2″ tall x 8.2″ wide.
About the book (from the dust jacket)
Charles Perrault’s fairy tales have become classics of our literature: “The Sleeping Beauty; ” “Puss in Boots,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” and especially “Cinderella” are childhood favorites. Now Michael Hague has created a new collection of Perrault’s stories, eight in all, illustrated with lavish, full-color pictures that capture the rich world of the fairy tale: sometimes ferocious, sometimes benevolent, always enthralling, always magical. Together these enduring tales, with their gorgeous new illustrations, make a beautiful book that will be treasured throughout childhood.
About the author (From the dust jacket)
CHARLES PERRAULT was born in Paris in 1628 and was trained as a lawyer. He later turned to literature and published his collected tales in a book titled Histoires oucontes du temps passé avec des moralités (“Stories or tales of times past with morals”). These Mother Goose Tales, as they were known in English, assured Perrault’s place as a major contributor to children’s literature. He died in France in 1703.
About the illustrator (from the dust jacket)
MICHAEL HAGUE, one of this country’s foremost illustrators, received his training from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, from which he was graduated with honors. He is the illustrator of such children’s classics as The Velveteen Rabbit, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, and Peter Pan, and has previously illustrated one other collection of fairy tales, Michael Hague’s Favorite Hans Christian Andersen Fairy Tales. Michael Hague lives with his wife, author Kathleen Hague, and his three children in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
