This is a major new book from Lucy Cousins, creator of Maisy. This collection of 8 classic nursery stories pulls no punches - it's lively, bold and quite unforgettable! Lucy Cousins retells her favourite nursery stories in spare bold language and brilliant vibrant pictures. She gives their famous characters new life and imbues their great adventures with her own very modern magic. These stories are treasures of the imagination. They were first told long ago and they will be told again and again, far into the future. They never fail to stir and excite. Retold in this book: "Little Red Riding Hood", "The Three Billy Goats Gruff", "The Enormous Turnip", "Henny Penny", "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", "The Little Red Hen", "The Three little Pigs" and "The Musicians of Bremen". A global phenomenon, Maisy books have won several major awards, have sold over twenty-one million copies worldwide, and are available in twenty-nine different languages.

 

There are 124 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2009 by Walker Books Ltd .

Lucy Cousins, the creator of Maisy, won the 2002 Smarties Book Prize Gold Award for the Under 5s category with her picture book Jazzy in the Jungle. She lives in Petersfield, Hampshire, and has four children.