Marcia Brown

Brown's illustrated translation of Perrault's tale in which Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper in her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect won the 1955 Caldecott medal.

In the Napping House, a wakeful flea atop a number of sleeping creatures causes a commotion, with just one bite. In the Owl and the Pussycat, listen to the lilting rhythms of the two characters who "went to sea in a beautiful pea-green boat." In Stone Soup, three clever soldiers, during the time of Napoleon, devise a plan to get food and lodging from the selfish inhabitants of the village. Sailing off in a wooden shoe, Wynken, Blynken and Nod find...