Puss in Boots

A Caldecott Honor Book in a deluxe softcover edition.

Publishers Weekly

"Perrault's tale has never received a more faithful yet remarkably original treatment," PW said in a boxed review. "Marcellino's luxurious and skillfully designed paintings startle in their complexity and beauty." All ages. (Sept.)

Charles Perrault is the author of the 1697 classic" Stories or Tales from Times Past," which had the added title on the frontispiece, "Tales of Mother Goose,"

Anthea Bell (translator) is the recipient of the Schlegel Tieck Prize for translation from German, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize in 2002 for the translation of W. G. Sebald's "Austerlitz", and the 2003 Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation. She lives in Cambridge, England.