Puss in Boots

by Charles Perrault, Marcia Brown (Illustrator)

Overview

Highly detailed illustrations with lots of clever stylistic touches make this a delightful rags to riches tale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780684129884
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster
Publication date:	06/01/1952
Product dimensions:	8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Charles Perrault (1628–1703) is known as the father of French children's literature. He collected many folk tales from France and had them published.

Having studied both Visual Design in Korea and illustration studies in the USA, Sam-hyeon Kim has illustrated many creative children's books, such as Three Little Pigs, Cinderella, and Puss in Boots.

Editorial Reviews

11/24/2014
Lush illustrations will draw readers into this gently funny adaptation of Perrault’s story, part of the publisher’s World Classics series, about the youngest of three sons lucking his way into a wife and a castle. Kim pictures the son’s inherited cat as a gray tabby with ornate red boots, shrewd facial expressions, and claws that mean business (when the cat threatens to bite and scratch field workers if they don’t tell the king who they work for, there’s little doubt he’ll make good on the threat). There’s a hint of Bruegel to Kim’s rural landscapes, as well as some understated humor—the supposedly fierce giant who owns the fields and castle the cat steals is first seen reclining lazily on a carpet, smoking a hookah. Simultaneously available: Rapunzel, The Wolf and the Seven Kids, Thumbelina, and The Emperor’s New Clothes. Ages 4–8. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

"Lush illustrations will draw readers into this gently funny adaptation of Perrault's story, part of the publisher's World Classics series, about the youngest of three sons lucking his way into a wife and a castle. Kim pictures the son's inherited cat as a gray tabby with ornate red boots, shrewd facial expressions, and claws that mean business (when the cat threatens to bite and scratch field workers if they don't tell the king who they work for, there's little doubt he'll make good on the threat). There's a hint of Bruegel to Kim's rural landscapes, as well as some understated humor—the supposedly fierce giant who owns the fields and castle the cat steals is first seen reclining lazily on a carpet, smoking a hookah. Simultaneously available: Rapunzel, The Wolf and the Seven Kids, Thumbelina, and The Emperor's New Clothes." —Publishers Weekly

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