Grimms' Fairy Tales, Retold by Elli Woollard, Illustrated by Marta Altes
Product details
- ISBN 9781529053418
- Weight: 564g
- Dimensions: 198 x 277mm
- Publication Date: 29 Sep 2022
- Publisher: Pan Macmillan
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
- Age Group: Ages 0-5
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A beautiful gift edition of Grimms' Fairy Tales featuring five classic stories, charmingly retold in rhyming verse with stunning illustrations.
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 of Grimms' Fairy Tales is a fresh and funny take on the iconic original tales by the brothers Grimm. Richly illustrated throughout by Marta Altés, author of Little Monkey and New in Town, this is perfect for new and younger readers and will delight children and adults alike.
A timeless gift with sumptuous details including textured foil cover and full colour illustrations throughout. A book to treasure, to share and enjoy again and again.
A perfect companion title to Aesop’s Fables and Just So Stories, retold by Elli Woollard, created by the same winning team.
Stories include:
Cinderella
Little Red Cap
The Musicians of Bremen
Hansel and Gretel
The Elves and the Shoemaker.
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. Her snappy rhymes, catchy rhythms and witty stories are sure to make her a huge success. Elli has written The Giant of Jum, Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories and The Dragon and the Nibblesome Knight for Macmillan, as well as the young fiction series Swashbuckle Li. Elli lives in London with her four children, her husband and two guinea pigs.
Marta Altés is the award-winning creator of My Grandpa, I am an Artist!, My New Home, The King Cat, Little Monkey and Rudyard Kipling's Just So Stories. After studying Graphic Design in Barcelona. Marta moved to the UK to study for an MA in Children's Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art. Since graduating in 2011 she has won the Read It Again! Award, the Nottingham Children's Book Award and the Jack Ezra Keats New Illustrator Honour. Her first book No! was shortlisted for the Waterstone's Picture Book Prize, and has been nominated for the Kate Greenaway Award three times. Little Monkey was nominated in 2018, the same year it was also chosen as the Booktrust Time To Read campaign title. Marta lives in London with her partner and baby daughter, and Sam the dog.