The Tailor of Gloucester

My dear Freda, because you like fairy-tales, and have been ill, I have made you a story all for yourself, a new one that nobody has read before. I heard it in Gloucestershire, and the story is true-at least about the tailor, the waistcoat, and the “No more...

The Story of Miss Moppet

There was a kitten called Miss Moppet. Once she thought that she heard a mouse! The Mouse was peeping out behind the cupboard and making fun of Miss Moppet. He was not afraid of a kitten. Miss Moppet jumped just too late; she missed the Mouse and hit her head. She...

The Cat and the Parrot

Once there was a cat, and a parrot. And they had agreed to ask each other to dinner, turn and turn about: first the cat should ask the parrot, then the parrot should invite the cat, and so on. It was the cat’s turn first. Now the cat was very mean. He provided...

The little pink rose

Once there was a little pink Rosebud, and she lived down in a little dark house under the ground. One day she was sitting there, all by herself, and it was very still. Suddenly, she heard a little TAP, TAP, TAP, at the door. “Who is that?” she said....