Les Contes de ma mère l'Oye
by Charles Perrault
Picture book · ages 4–8 · grades K–3 · 440 pages · 2001
Why we'd hand it over
The 1905 Hachette facsimile is a gorgeous artifact—ornate illustrations and antique typography transport kids into the proper dreaminess of Perrault's originals, though the French text requires a fluent reader or parent as co-reader.