These fairy tales are not too long, not too short, they’re just right! Seven fairy tales are retold and illustrated by London born and Liverpool School of Art trained Tony Ross. Ross’ pencil and paint strokes are simple, if not crude, yet the movement and emotions are well defined!

Of Ross’  seven favourite  fairy tales, I was only familiar* with three of them: The Hedley Kow, The Musicians of Bremen*, Sweet Porridge, Rumpelstiltskin*, Prince Hyacinth and the Dear Little Princess, Fairy Gifts, and Beauty and the Beast*. The stories’ length averages 10-14 pages long with the ratio of picture to text often 1:1 or greater.

I particularly enjoyed the characters not retelling their story numerous times by the narrative stating “the girl explained”.