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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.
Other Editions
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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