Little Red Riding Hood Av Charles Perrault

This collection of eight French contes collected by Charles Perrault in the last decade of the seventeenth century, contains perhaps the most famous fairy stories of all time - ''Cinderella'', ''The Sleeping Beauty'', ''Puss in Boots'', ''Blue Beard'' and of couse the eponymous ''Little Red Riding Hood''. It quickly became the standard version of stories on these themes, was translated into innumerable languages and then re-entered the oral tradition of most European countries, particularly England. The Everyman edition contains the classic Heath Robinson illustrations from 1921.