Grimms' Fairy Tales
$28.99| ISBN-13: | 9781529053425 | Format: | Paperback |
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| Subject: | Kids | Publisher: | Pan Macmillan |
| Published: | January 9th 2024 | Pages: | 96 |
Book Description
An irresistible gift collection of five classic fairytales from the Brothers Grimm, charmingly retold in rhyming verse by author Elli Woollard and sumptuously illustrated by award-winner Marta Altés.
Follow Little Red through the woods, where she encounters a wolf! Find out what happens when Hansel and Gretel meet a witch, and see who secretly stitches the poor shoemaker's shoes. Who are the mysterious musicians of Bremen, and will Cinderella go to the ball, after all?
Bringing together the incredible talents of award-winning illustrator and Booktrust Time to Read favourite, Marta Altés and author and poet, Elli Woollard, this unique collection is a fresh and funny take on the original, iconic tales of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. With a textured foil cover and rich, full-colour illustrations throughout, Grimms' Fairy Tales is a book to treasure, share, and enjoy again and again.
Stories include: Cinderella, Little Red Cap, The Musicians of Bremen, Hansel and Gretel, and The Elves and the Shoemaker.
Grimms' Fairy Tales is the perfect companion to Aesop's Fables and Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories by the same winning team.
About the Author
Elli Woollard is an exciting talent on the picture books scene, who started writing stories after an embarrassing incident in which her youngest son broke Michael Rosen's glasses. In addition to picture books, she also writes children's poems. Elli has written Little Bear's Spring, Little Goose's Autumn, The Great Gran Plan and The Dragon and the Nibblesome Knight for Macmillan, as well as the young fiction series Swashbuckle Lil. Elli lives in London, England with her family and a very naughty cat.
Marta Altés is the award-winning creator of My Grandpa, I am an Artist!, My New Home, The King Cat, Little Monkey, Five More Stories, New in Town, and It Wasn't Me. She loves to tell stories and her love of illustration saw her study for a degree in Graphic Design in Barcelona. Marta moved to the UK to study for an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art and graduated in 2011. Since then she has won the Read It Again! Award and the Nottingham Children's Book Award. Her first book No! was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Picture Book Prize, and Little Monkey was nominated for the Kate Greenaway Award. Marta lives in London, England, with her partner, daughter, and Sam the dog.