Six books that most reading childhoods pass through are gathered in one box, from Aesop's Fables to The Little Prince.
The selection mixes fable, fairy tale and voyage: Andersen's Fairy Tales, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Gulliver's Travels and Peter Pan fill out the rest. Between them they cover short moral pieces that take two minutes to read and longer narratives that reward a week of bedtimes. Because the contents vary so much in length, the set suits a household with children at different reading stages, and adults rereading them tend to notice how strange and sharp the originals are.
Key things to know:
• Six volumes spanning fables, fairy tales and adventure
• Very short pieces alongside full-length stories
• Works drawn from several literary traditions in translation and retelling
• A presentation box that holds the six titles together
Fitting for family libraries, school prize-giving and gifts to young readers, available from Boipoka.