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My Book of Classic Nursery Tales

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A beautiful new collection of eight nursery tales – traditional stories for younger children, including all the favourite classics, delightfully retold and enchantingly illustrated by James Mayhew, internationally bestselling author and illustrator of Once Upon a Tune, A Symphony of Stories, the Mrs Noah series and many other much-loved picture books.

The stories included are: Goldilocks and the Three Bears (England), Little Red Riding Hood (Germany), The Billy Goats Gruff (Norway), The Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf (England), The Enormous Turnip (Ukraine), The Tortoise and the Hare (Ancient Greece), The Gingerbread Man (North America), The Vain Little Mouse (Spain)

Using the same technique of colourful cut-outs and collage as in his bestselling Once Upon a Tune: Stories from the Orchestra, James Mayhew has created another spectacular gift book, this time for a very young audience.

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What is your favourite children’s story? Goldilocks and the Three Bears? The Enormous Turnip? These age-old tales still hold incredible charm and memorable story lines – with many variations. Did your gingerbread man survive or not? Did your tortoise and hare become friends at the end? What happened to your big bad wolf? Nursery tales, handed down from storyteller to storyteller, have countless variations. This new collection contains eight well-known traditional tales retold by James Mayhew with spell-binding storylines and vivid descriptions, each beautifully illustrated with thoughtful, modern and quirky artwork by the author. My favourite part of this book is the double-page spread at the back of the book, giving a potted history of each of the tales. Who knew that the earliest version of The Three Little Pigs was actually about three little pixies? And would you have guessed that The Tortoise and the Hare dates from more than two thousand years ago? Some of these tales you will remember, some you may not know, but all of them are special and worth sharing with the youngest generation.

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