Best Selling Books by Vera Southgate

This beautiful Ladybird ebook edition of The Gingerbread Man is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, following the Gingerbread Man as he attempts to escape all of the people and animals who want to gobble him up! Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Tales series include The Little Red Hen, The Three Billy Goats Gruff, The Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk, Cinderella, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Rapunzel, The Magic Porridge Pot, The Enormous Turnip, Puss in Boots, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Big Pancake, Dick Whittington, The Princess and the Frog, The Princess and the Pea, The Ugly Duckling, Chicken Licken and Beauty and the Beast. Ladybird Tales are based on the original Ladybird retellings, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best - full of richness and detail. Children have always loved, and will always remember, these classic fairy tales and sharing them together is an experience to treasure. Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children.

Retelling of the traditional German folktale Rumpelstiltskin. When a girl''s father tells the king she can spin straw into gold, she is sent to work right away. But she can''t really spin gold! Can a mischievous goblin help her?

Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. These are based on the original Ladybird retellings, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best u00ad- full of richness and detail. Children have always loved and will always remember these classic stories and sharing them together is an experience to treasure.