Le chat botté

About this book

***A cunning cat wins for his master a castle, a fortune, and the hand of a princess.***

**Charles Perrault first published his collection of classic French folk tales 300 years ago, including "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," and this entertaining story about a most clever feline.**

***In Puss and Boots, a poor miller dies and leaves his youngest son nothing but a cat.*** The son is none too happy about it, either; " ...once I've eaten my cat and made a muff out of the fur, I'm sure to starve," he says. But what a legacy the bequeathed cat turns out to be! The cat in tall boots creates a new identity for the youngest son--the Marquis of Carabas, complete with fine clothes, fields of wheat, a castle stolen from an ogre, and in the end, the respect of the king and the hand of the king's daughter. ***The story itself is gracefully and humorously told, and the text, set in large gray type, adds an old-fashioned air to the tale.***

ABOUT AUTHOR: Charles Perrault was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales, published in his Histoires ou contes du temps passé.***--Wikipedia***

***Born: Jan 12, 1628, Paris, France Died: May 16, 1703, Paris, France***

Subjects

award:caldecott_award
book
books
boots
caldecott medal
castles
cat
cats
cats, fiction
children
children's fiction
collectionid:caldecotthonor90
contes de fées
cunning
deception
fables
fairies, fiction
fairs
fairy tales
fantasy
fiction
fiction, general
folklore
folklore, france
folklore, juvenile literature
fortune
france
france, fiction
ghouls
ghouls and ogres
human-animal relationships
intellect
juvenile
juvenile fiction
juvenile literature
kings
kings and rulers
lemuel gulliver (fictitious character)
literature
millers
ogres
ouvrages pour la jeunesse
pictorial works
pictures
princesses
readers (primary)
rulers
trickster
tricksters
young men