Hilda Offen's bright and humorous illustrations will inspire and entertain today's generation of children, bringing to life the timeless stories and colourful characters of everyone's favourite fairy tales. Told in a lively style, children will enjoy reading them aloud or listening to them at bedtime from a book they will treasure for years to come.

 

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 2009 by Octopus Publishing Group .

Alf Proysen was born in Norway in 1914. The Mrs Pepperpot books first appeared in the 1950s and were an immediate success. They have been loved by children ever since and have been translated into many different languages. Hilda Offen is a well-known picture book illustrator, who won the Smarties Prize in 1992 for Nice Work, Little Wolf. Since then she has illustrated many picture books, including Fred and Ted's Treasure Hunt. She lives in Brighton.