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Aunt Louisa’s London Toy Books: Diamonds and Toads
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| Author(s): | Charles Perrault |
| Illustrator(s): | Kate Greenaway |
| Publisher(s): | Frederick Warne & Co. McLoughlin Brothers |
| Year Published: | circa 1871 |
| Type: | Hardcover |
| Genre: | Fairy Tales - Classic Picture Book |
| Age Range: | Ages 5-7: Early Reader Books |
| Pages: | 11 |
| This is an | All-Time Great Children's Book (ATGCB) |
| OCLC: | 14771742 |
Description
A fairy tale with color illustrations. Read online at the University of Florida. Or at archive.org. It is the first story in this compilation.
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Histories, or Tales of Past Times (1729)
This is the first English translation of Charles Perrault's collection of fairy tales, containing:
- The Little Red Riding Hood
- The Fairy (Diamonds and Toads)
- The Blue Beard
- The Sleeping Beauty (in the Wood)
- The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots
- Cinderilla, or the Little Glass Slipper
- Riquet à la Houppe (Riquet of the Tuft)
- Little Poucet and his Brothers (Hop o' My Thumb)
as well as an adult 'novel' - The Discreet Princess, or the Adventures of Finetta - by Perrault's relative Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon.
Only a single copy of this first edition is known to exist.
This edition contains the morals, which are often left out, particularly in modern editions.
Publisher: R. Montagu
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