Golden Goose Book (version 2)

Some stories become part of you. You carry them forward into adulthood without quite knowing when they arrived, and they shape the way you see the world. This collection holds four such tales, plucked from the deep well of oral tradition and given new life in one of the most beautiful picture books of the early twentieth century. The Three Bears, The Three Little Pigs, The Golden Goose, and Tom Thumb are stories where the small outwit the large, where patience and courage are rewarded, where the wolf always gets his comeuppance and the kind heart finds its fortune. Leslie Brooke's delicate illustrations, rendered in soft earth tones and gentle crosshading, give these tales a warmth that feels like a shared secret between reader and child. Some of these stories you know by heart. Others, like the titular Golden Goose with its absurd logic of 'the more you give away, the more you have,' and tiny Tom Thumb who rides a mouse through a cat-infested castle, will arrive fresh and startling. Either way, the pleasure is in the telling. For parents who remember these tales from their own childhoods, and for children encountering them for the first time, this is the book that makes those memories tangible.