The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

These are the originals — Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood — in the form Perrault wrote them for seventeenth-century France, verse morals and all, and their literary DNA runs through virtually every fairy tale a child will ever encounter. Bluebeard's murdered wives warrant a parent's presence for younger readers, but handled thoughtfully these stories open up centuries of storytelling tradition in one slim volume. A genuine classic, not a tie-in product.