Puss in Boots
Content:
Puss in Boots by Charles Perrault
Illustrator:
Marcia Brown
Original title:
The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots
Original author:
Charles Perrault
Original language:
French
Translator:
Marcia Brown
Publication:
1952 by Charles Scribner's Sons
Genre:
Fairy Tales, Fiction, Folk Tales
Pages:
32
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Make way for the Marquis of Carabas and his famous cat! This is one of the stories that has delighted children through the years. How they love the sly cat as he struts through the countryside in his little red boots.
Secure in the red boots, he threatens to chop trembling mowers into mincemeat, vanquishes an ogre, takes over a castle and sees to it that his master marries the king's daughter.
What fun he is! Marcia Brown has made a new translation, keeping close to the original yet giving it flexibility for story-telling. Her handsome, lively pictures speak for themselves and make Puss a real character.
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Marcia Brown
1918 - 2015American
Marcia Brown has twice won the Caldecott Medal (for Cinderella and Once a Mouse...) and six of her books have been Caldecott Hon... See more
Resource Guide
Podcast
Episode 70: Why Read Fairy Tales?
Released in 2020 by The Literary Life
Available formats: Streaming Audio
Length: 1 hr. 29 min.
View on the The Literary Life site
"Angelina Stanford and Cindy Rollins tackle the topic of fairy stories, discussing the what, why and how of reading them. Angelina shares the distinctive characteristics of fairy stories in contrast to other types of stories, such as myths. They deal with the question of whether fairy tales are 'escapist', the influence of the Grimm brothers scholarly work on interpreting fairy stories, and allowing the story to unveil its deeper truths without forcing meaning onto it.
Angelina gives an illustration of how to see the gospel messages in fairy tales by talking us through the story of Sleeping Beauty. She refutes the ideas that fairy tales are about human romance or are misogynistic. She also highlights some of the Enlightenment and Puritan responses to fairy tales that still linger with us today. Cindy and Angelina also discuss some common concerns such as the magical, weird, or scary aspects of fairy tales. Angelina also makes a distinction between folk tales, literary fairy tales, and cautionary tales."
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