Fairy Tales for Little Folks - Hardcover

Moses, Will

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0451472837 ISBN 13: 9780451472830

Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers, 2015

Synopsis

Five best-loved fairy tales by a renowned folk artist

Any parent or grandparent longing to share these timeless, well-loved tales with a favorite child will welcome this enchanting collection from acclaimed folk artist Will Moses.

Five tales are included: Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Beauty and the Beast, Rumpelstiltskin, and Puss in Boots. Each one is profusely illustrated with vignettes as well as a lavish double spread that incorporates all the key events of the story.

This handsome volume, full of fascinating detail and plentiful charm, is destined to become a family treasure.

About this title

About the Author

Folk artist Will Moses is the great-grandson of the famous primitive painter Grandma Moses, and has illustrated ten books, including The Night Before Christmas. He and his wife, Sharon, founded the Mt. Nebo Gallery.

Reviews

K-Gr 2—Moses retells five fairy tales with his own style of casual narration and folk art illustrations. The basics of the stories will be familiar to children who have read "Little Red Riding Hood," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Snow White," "Puss in Boots," and "Beauty and the Beast," but Moses adds a bit of originality in the dialogue and in the characters' backgrounds. In Moses's version of the first story, readers learn it was Grandmother who made the red velvet riding coat and that the reason the tricky old wolf went to Grandmother's house was to eat the grandmother, the girl, and the pie and tea that Little Red Riding Hood was carrying in her basket. There are no happy endings for the villains in Moses's retellings. In "Puss in Boots," the ogre who transforms into a mouse is gobbled up by Puss, and in "Little Red Riding Hood," the woodcutter uses scissors to cut open the belly of the wolf. Several spot illustrations appear on the side of each page of the story, which are six to eight pages in length and adorn the end of the stories as double-page overviews of each plot and setting. Moses ends the book with a brilliant summary of why he believes it's important to read fairy tales to children. VERDICT This book conjures up excitement in readers by highlighting aspects of the original fairy tales and by introducing bits of new material in both the text and the illustrations.—Tanya Boudreau, Cold Lake Public Library, AB, Canada

Edition details

• Publisher: Viking Books for Young Readers
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0451472837
• ISBN 13: 9780451472830
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 48