Surely each of us read Charles Perrault in childhood. Everyone knows, and many are loved, such tales as "Cinderella", "Bluebeard", "Sleeping Beauty". the site in honor of the writer's birthday publishes a selection of illustrations on these and other stories.

Tale "Puss in Boots". First printed and illustrated edition, 1695

"Cinderella"

Cinderella in a 19th century French popular print

Plot (Charles Perrault 1697)

The king of a small country, a widower with a daughter from his first marriage, a charming and kind girl, married an arrogant and evil lady with two daughters, in every way like a mother. The father "obeyed his new wife in everything." The stepmother makes her stepdaughter live in the attic, sleep on a straw mat and do the hardest and dirtiest work. After work, the girl usually rests, sitting on a box with ash near the fireplace, so the sisters called her Cinderella. Cinderella's half-sisters bathe in luxury, and she resignedly bears their ridicule.

Gustave Dore

Prince Mirliflor throws a ball to which he invites all the noble people of the kingdom with their wives and daughters. Cinderella's stepmother and sisters are also invited to the ball; No one will let Cinderella herself, in her dirty rags, into the palace. After the departure of her stepmother and sisters, Cinderella cries bitterly. She is visited by her godmother, who is a fairy. The fairy godmother transforms a pumpkin, mice, rat and lizards, respectively, into a carriage, horses, coachman and servants, Cinderella's rags into a luxurious dress, and gives her beautiful shoes. She warns Cinderella that exactly at midnight the carriage will turn back into a pumpkin, the dress into rags, etc. Cinderella goes to the ball. Everyone is delighted with her beauty and attire, the prince meets and dances with her. At a quarter to twelve Cinderella "quickly said goodbye to everyone and hurried to leave." At home, she puts on an old apron and wooden shoes and listens to the admiring stories of the returning sisters about the beautiful stranger who shone at the ball.

Frederick-Theodore Leakes

The next evening, even more elegant Cinderella goes to the ball again. The prince did not leave her and whispered all sorts of pleasantries to her. Cinderella had a lot of fun and only caught herself when the clock began striking midnight. Cinderella runs home, but loses her shoe.

Gustave Dore

The prince announced throughout the kingdom that he would marry a girl who would have a tiny shoe up to her feet. To the surprise of the sisters, Cinderella freely puts on the slipper. Immediately after trying on, Cinderella takes out a second shoe of the same kind from her pocket, and the fairy turns her rags into a luxurious dress. The sisters fall to their knees and ask for forgiveness from Cinderella. Cinderella forgives her sisters from the bottom of her heart.

Cinderella is taken to the palace to the prince and a few days later he will marry her. She took the sisters to her palace and on the same day she married them to two court nobles.

"Puss in Boots"

Gustave Dore

Plot

Puss in Boots and Cannibal. Illustration by Gustave Dore

The miller's youngest son inherited only a cat from his father. The rest went to the brothers. There was something for the youngest to fall into despair, but only the cat turned out to be not simple, but an extremely enterprising guy. Thanks to the cat's business acumen and cunning, its owner got everything a young man could dream of: title, respect of the king, castle, wealth and love of a beautiful princess.

"Little Red Riding Hood"

"Little Red Riding Hood". Oil painting by Swiss artistAlbert Anker , (1883)

Plot

Mother sends her daughter to her grandmother with milk and bread. She meets the wolf, tells him where she is going. The wolf overtakes the girl, kills the grandmother, prepares food from her body, and a drink from the blood, dresses in the clothes of the grandmother and lies in her bed. When the girl arrives, the wolf invites her to eat. The grandmother's cat tries to warn the girl that she is eating the remains of her grandmother, but the wolf throws wooden shoes at the cat and kills her. Then the wolf invites the girl to undress and lie down next to him, and throw the clothes into the fire. She does so and, lying down next to the wolf, asks why he has a lot of hair, broad shoulders, long nails, big teeth. The wolf answers the last question: "This is to eat you as soon as possible, my child!" and eats the girl.

Gustave Dore

This is how most of the recorded variants end, although in some of them the girl, with the help of cunning, escapes from the wolf.

Waltor Crane

Charles Perrault literary processed the folk story. He removed the motif of cannibalism, the character-cat and her murder by the wolf, introduced a defiant red cap - a “companion” cap (originally - “chaperon” (fr. Chaperon), which went out of fashion in cities during Perrault's time, but popular with women rural area), which the girl wore, and most importantly, he morally comprehended the fairy tale, introducing the motive for the girl's violation of decency, for which she paid, and concluded the fairy tale with poetic morality, instructing girls to be wary of seducers. Thus, although the rough naturalistic moments of the folk tale were significantly softened, the appeal to the question of the relationship between the sexes was emphasized.

Arthur Rackham

The tale was published in 1697 in Paris, in the book "Tales of Mother Goose, or Stories and Tales of Bygone Times with Teachings", better known as " The Tales of Mother Goose».

"Sleeping Beauty"

Frederick-Theodore Leakes

Plot

The long-awaited daughter was born to the king and queen, and they invite all the fairies of the kingdom to the feast, except one - because she had not left her tower for half a century, and everyone decided that she was dead. In the midst of the christening feast, an uninvited fairy appeared, who, it seemed to her, was treated impolitely, because there was not enough precious cutlery for her. When all the fairies, except one, who prudently decided to leave the last word for herself, presented the princess with magical gifts, the old fairy Carabosse uttered her shocking prophecy: the princess would prick her finger on the spindle and die.

Gustave Dore

The last fairy softens the sentence: “Yes, the princess will prick her finger on the spindle, but she will fall asleep for exactly 100 years” (in the original version of Perrault, the prince is not mentioned). The king issues a decree to burn all the spinning wheels and spindles, but in vain: after 16 years, the princess finds an old woman in the tower of a country castle, who had not heard anything about the royal decree and was spinning a tow. The princess pricked her finger on the spindle and fell down dead. It is no longer possible to awaken her. A fairy appears, softening the spell, and asks the king and queen to leave the castle. Meanwhile, she plunges the castle into an age-old sleep, and an impenetrable forest grows around it - so that no one gets into the castle before the deadline. 100 years pass, the prince appears, enters the castle - and the princess wakes up (there is no kiss, she woke up only because it was time for the spell to recede). Then - a secret engagement. The prince visits his wife every day, and they have children - a son named Day and a girl named Zarya. But the prince's mother suspected a love affair and asks her son to bring her daughter-in-law and grandchildren to her in the castle.

Gustave Dore

As a cannibal, she can hardly restrain the urge to eat her grandchildren. But the prince leaves for the war, and the mother-in-law begins to act. First she orders to kill her granddaughter, then her grandson and, finally, her son's wife and cook them tastier. But the butler hides the unfortunate in the stable, and the queen serves animal meat. One day the cannibal queen, passing through the courtyard, heard screams from the stable: the princess decided to whip her son for a prank. The cannibal was so angry that she ordered to put a cauldron with all sorts of reptiles in the courtyard of the castle and throw her daughter-in-law and grandchildren there, but, fortunately, the prince returns. Unable to bear the shame, the cannibal herself throws herself into the cauldron and dies. At the end of the tale, the moral: no girl will sleep for a whole century to wait for the groom with the title and wealth.

"Blue Beard"

Frederick-Theodore Leakes

Plot

Women are afraid of a rich aristocrat nicknamed Bluebeard: firstly, because of the blue color of the beard, for which he received such a nickname, and secondly, because the fate of his six ex-wives remains unknown. He woo one of the daughters of a neighbor, a noble lady, inviting the mother to decide for herself which of the daughters to marry. In fear of him, none of the daughters dares to nominate themselves. As a result, having won the heart of the youngest daughter, the master plays a wedding with her, and she moves to live with him in the castle.

Gustave Dore

Soon after the wedding, the gentleman leaves, saying that he is forced to leave on business, and gives his wife the keys to all rooms, including the mysterious closet below, forbidding him to enter there under threat of death. But during the departure of her husband, the girl breaks down and opens the door, discovering there a puddle of caked blood and the bodies of all the previous wives of Bluebeard. Terrified, she drops the key into a pool of blood and, regaining consciousness, tries to wipe off the blood. But since this key is magical, nothing works for her.

Gustave Dore

Suddenly, Bluebeard returns from a trip ahead of schedule and, by the excitement of his wife, guesses that she has violated the agreement. She asks him for five minutes to pray, and she sends her older sister to the tower to see if the brothers have arrived. As time passes, Bluebeard runs out of patience, he takes out a knife and grabs his wife, but at that moment her brothers come and kill him.

The miller had three sons, and, dying, he left them only a mill, a donkey and a cat.
The brothers divided among themselves the paternal property without a judge and a notary who would swallow all their poor inheritance quickly.
The eldest got the mill. The middle one is a donkey. And the youngest had to take a cat.

The poor fellow could not be comforted for a long time, having received such a miserable share of the inheritance.
“Brothers,” he said, “can honestly earn their living if they only stick together. And what will become of me after I eat my cat and make a muff out of his skin? Just die of hunger!
The cat heard these words, but did not show it either, but said calmly and judiciously:
- Don't be sad, master. Give me a bag and order a pair of boots to make it easier to wander through the bushes, and you will see for yourself that you are not as offended as it seems to you now.
The owner of the cat himself didn’t know whether to believe it or not, but he remembered well what tricks the cat had embarked on when he was hunting rats and mice, how deftly he pretended to be dead, now hanging on his hind legs, now burying himself almost with his head in flour. Who knows, and suddenly, in fact, he will help in some way in trouble!
As soon as the cat got everything he needed, he quickly put on his shoes, stamped valiantly, threw the sack over his shoulder and, holding it by the laces with his front paws, walked into the protected forest, where there were many rabbits. And in the sack he had bran and hare cabbage.

Stretching out on the grass and pretending to be dead, he began to wait for some inexperienced rabbit, who had not yet had time to experience on his own skin how evil and insidious the light was, would climb into a bag to feast on the food that had been reserved for him.
He did not have to wait long: some young gullible simpleton rabbit immediately jumped into his sack. Without thinking twice, the cat tightened its laces, and the stupid rabbit was trapped.
After that, proud of his prey, the cat went straight to the palace and asked the king for a reception. He was led into the royal chambers.
He made a respectful bow to His Majesty and said:
- Your Majesty, here is a rabbit from the forests of the Marquis de Carabas (he invented such a name for his master). My lord has ordered me to present you with this modest gift.

Thank your lord, the king replied, and tell him that he gave me great pleasure.
A few days later, the cat went to the field and there, hiding among the ears, opened his sack again.
This time two partridges were trapped by him. He quickly tightened his laces and carried both of them to the king.
The king willingly accepted this gift and ordered to give the cat a tip.
Two or three months passed in this way. The cat now and then brought the king game, as if it had been hunted by his master, the Marquis de Carabas.
And then one day the cat learned that the king, along with his daughter, the most beautiful princess in the world, was going to take a carriage ride along the river bank.
The cat immediately ran to his marquis:
- Do you agree to obey my advice? he asked his master. - In that case, happiness is in our hands. All that is required of you is to go swimming in the river, wherever I show you. Leave the rest to me.
The Marquis de Carabas obediently did everything that the cat advised him, although he did not even know what it was for.
While he was swimming, the cat hid the master's dress under a large stone.
Soon the royal carriage drove to the river bank.
The cat rushed as fast as he could and shouted at the top of his lungs:
- This way, this way! Help! The Marquis de Carabas is drowning!

The king heard this cry, opened the carriage door and, recognizing the cat, who had brought him game so many times as a gift, immediately sent his guards to rescue the Marquis de Carabas.
While the poor marquis was being dragged out of the water, the cat managed to tell the king that the thieves had stolen everything from the master while bathing.

The king immediately ordered his courtiers to bring one of the finest garments of the royal wardrobe for the Marquis de Carabas.
The outfit turned out to be at the right time, and to the face, and since the marquis was already small even wherever - handsome and stately, then, having dressed up, he, of course, became even better, and the royal daughter, looking at him, found that he just to her taste.
When the Marquis de Carabas threw two or three glances in her direction, very respectful and at the same time gentle, she fell in love with him without memory.
Her father, the young marquis, also fell in love with. The king was very kind to him and even invited him to sit in the carriage and take part in the walk.
The cat was delighted that everything was going like clockwork, and merrily ran in front of the carriage.
On the way, he saw peasants mowing hay in the meadow.
“Hey, good people,” he shouted as he ran, “if you don’t tell the king that this meadow belongs to the Marquis de Carabas, you will all be chopped to pieces, like a filling for a pie! Know so!
Just then the royal carriage drove up, and the king asked, looking out of the window:
- Whose meadow are you mowing?
- Marquis de Carabas! - the mowers answered in one voice, because the cat scared them to death with its threats.
“However, Marquis, you have a glorious estate here! said the king.
“Yes, sir, this meadow yields excellent hay every year,” the marquis replied modestly.
Meanwhile, the cat ran forward and forward until he saw the reapers on the road working in the field.
“Hey, good people,” he shouted, “if you don’t tell the king that all these loaves belong to the Marquis de Carabas, you should know that you will all be chopped into pieces, like a filling for a pie!
A minute later the king drove up to the reapers and wanted to find out whose fields they were reaping.
“The fields of the Marquis de Carabas,” replied the reapers.
And the king was again glad for the mister marquis.
And the cat kept running forward and ordered everyone who met him to say the same thing: “This is the house of the Marquis de Carabas”, “This is the mill of the Marquis de Carabas”, “this is the garden of the Marquis de Carabas”.
The king could not marvel at the wealth of the young marquis.
And finally, the cat ran to the gates of the beautiful castle. There lived a very rich man-eating giant. No one in the world has ever seen a giant richer than this. All the lands on which the royal carriage rode were in his possession.
The cat found out in advance what kind of giant it was, what his strength was, and asked to be admitted to the owner. He, they say, cannot and does not want to pass by without having paid his respects.
The cannibal received him with all the courtesy that a cannibal is capable of after a hearty meal, and invited him to rest.

I was assured, - said the cat, - that you know how to turn into any animal. Well, for example, as if you can turn into a lion or an elephant ...
- Can! the giant barked. - And in order to prove it, now I will become a lion! Look!
The cat was so frightened when he saw a lion in front of him that in an instant he climbed up the drainpipe to the roof, although it was difficult and even dangerous, because it is not so easy to walk on the tiles in boots.
Only when the giant again assumed its former appearance, the cat came down from the roof and confessed to the owner that he almost died of fear.
“They also assured me,” he said, “but this is something I just can't believe that you seem to know how to transform even into the smallest animals. Well, for example, become a rat or even a mouse. I have to tell you the truth that I think this is completely impossible.
- Oh, that's how! Impossible? the giant asked. - Come on, look!
And at the same instant he turned into a mouse. The mouse quickly ran across the floor, but the cat chased after it and swallowed at once.

Meanwhile, the king, passing by, noticed a beautiful castle on the way and wished to enter there.
The cat heard the wheels of the king's carriage rattling on the drawbridge, and, running out to meet him, said to the king:
- Welcome to the castle of the Marquis de Carabas, your majesty! Welcome!

How, Monsieur Marquis ?! - exclaimed the king. - Is this castle yours too? You cannot imagine anything more beautiful than this courtyard and buildings around. Yes, it's just a palace! Let's see what it is like inside, if you don't mind.
The marquis gave his hand to the beautiful princess and led her after the king, who, as expected, walked in front.

All three of them entered the great hall, where a magnificent dinner was prepared.
Just on that day, the cannibal invited his friends to his place, but they did not dare to appear, having learned that the king was visiting the castle.
The king was fascinated by the merits of the Marquis de Carabas almost as much as his daughter, who was simply crazy about the Marquis.
In addition, His Majesty, of course, could not fail to appreciate the wonderful possessions of the Marquis and, having drained five or six cups, said:
“If you want to become my son-in-law, Monsieur Marquis, it depends only on you. I agree.
The Marquis thanked the King with a respectful bow for the honor shown to him, and on the same day he married the princess.

And the cat became a noble nobleman and since then hunted mice only occasionally - for his own pleasure.

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Puss in Boots

Charles Perrault

fairy tales for children with pictures

Once upon a time there was a miller. He lived, lived and died. After him, there was a mill, a donkey and a cat: he only had good, only his three sons inherited the inheritance. The sons did not argue for a long time, they quickly divided the inheritance: the eldest took a mill, the middle one - a donkey, and the youngest got a cat.

Now the younger one has gone and is grieving. - What do I need, - he says, - a cat! What should I do with it? Is it to eat it and sew a hat out of the skin, that's all. And then starve again. The brothers are good, they will be full. What should I do? The cat listened, listened, and even says:

Do not grieve, - he says, - master, I will help you out of trouble. Sew me only a bag and a pair of boots, and don't worry about anything. Melnikov's son thinks to himself: - Well, he thinks it won't get any worse, let him try his luck. No wonder he is such a master to catch mice and rats. Maybe he will invent something. I got him a purse and a pair of boots and brought him: - Here, - he says, - get ready.

The cat quickly put on his shoes, ran to the pantry, grabbed some tidbit there, put it in a bag, threw it on his shoulders and went into the forest. In the forest, he took off his bag, put it next to him, he lay down under a tree, stretched out as if he were dead and lies. Here the rabbit smelled a tidbit and reached into the bag. Then the cat quickly jumped to his feet, tightened the lace of the bag, loaded it on his shoulders and went to the royal court, to the king himself. - Let me go, - he says, - to the master; I was sent from Prince Karabas.

They let him in. He took the rabbit out of his bag, gave it to the king and said: “Here,” he says, “Prince Karabas has sent your Majesty a present. The king thanked him, ordered him to give him a couple of rabbits of his hunt and let him go home. The cat took the hares to the owner, and he went into the forest again. He stretched out there under a tree, and put the bag next to him. Two partridges smelled a tidbit, flew to the ground and climbed into the bag. The cat quickly jumped to its feet, tightened the bag, loaded it on its shoulders and carried it to the royal court. I gave a couple of partridges to the king. The king brought him a glass of vodka, ordered to give him a couple of geese from the poultry yard and sent him home. The cat took the geese to its owner and went hunting again. So he caught either hazel grouse or black grouse and took everything to the royal court. So he heard that the king was going to go with the princess to visit a neighbor, and he said to the owner: “Go,” he says, “to the river to swim, and I’ll play such a thing that you will be fine, and I’m not bad either.” Melnikov's youngest son obeyed the cat, went to the river, undressed and climbed into it up to his throat. And the cat has hidden all his dress and is guarding. When he saw the carriage with the king and the princess, he shouted with all his might:

Oh, priests, help! My master drowned. The king looked out of the window, recognized the cat. “But this,” he says, “must be Prince Karabas drowning. And he told the servants to pull him out. The servants of Melnikov's son were pulled out of the water, they began to look everywhere for his dress, it is nowhere to be found. - It must be, - says the cat, - someone stole, as my master was drowning.

The king sent a horse, ordered to bring his dress. They brought a dress, dressed Melnikov's son and put him in a carriage with the master. The son of the millers sits and admires the princess, and the princess looks at him.

And they go. And the cat runs ahead like a messenger. He saw that the people in the meadow were mowing the grass, and shouted to them with all their urine: “There’s your new master coming. If you do not say all in one voice that this is the meadow of Prince Karabas, he will take your heads off you. Here the carriage drove up to the meadow, the king asks: -Whose meadow is this? The peasants got scared and all shouted with one voice:

Prince Karabas. They go on, and the cat is running ahead; I saw that the people were picking up the rye, and shouted with all their urine: - Hey, you! There your new master is coming. If you do not say that this is the rye of Prince Karabas, he will take your heads off you. The carriage drove up to the field, the king and asks: - Whose field is this? And the peasants got scared and at once shouted:

Prince Karabas. And wherever they drive up, whoever they ask, everything is Prince Karabas. The king was surprised: - What are you, - he said, - rich! A magnificent palace appeared in the distance. And the man-eater lived in the palace: there were both meadows and those fields.

The cat ran forward, went into the palace to the cannibal, bowed low to him and said: “My gentlemen,” he says, “Prince Karabas with his wife and father-in-law, the king, welcome to your lordship. Order, - he says, - to accept.

The cannibal was glad that he would have something to eat, and told the servants to cook everything as soon as possible in order to treat the guests properly. And he sat down to talk with the cat. The cat says: - I dare, - he says, - to ask your lordship: I heard, - he says, - that you can turn into the fiercest beast, even if there is an elephant or a lion. Is it really, - he says, - is it true? The cannibal was glad that he was praised: - And here, look, - he says. He took it and turned into a lion. The cat did not even see the light, he was so scared, he even wanted to run to the roof.

And the lion turned into a cannibal again and laughs at the cat. The cat recovered a little, and asks:

They also told me that you can turn around even with the smallest animal, at least like a rat or a mouse. Only something I do not believe. Is it really true? “You don’t believe that either?” - says the cannibal. - Well, look. Turned around the mouse and let's run on the floor. The cat squinted, stretched, but as it rushes at the mouse - and ate it. Then he heard the sound of wheels, ran out onto the porch, bows low and shouts from the porch:

Please, - he says, - to the palace to my master, to Prince Karabas. The king was even more surprised: - Is this your, - he says, - the palace? And the millers' son gave his hand to the princess and leads her with his father to the porch, to the palace.

The tale is a lie, but there is a hint in it, a lesson to the good fellow.
Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin

International Children's Day was established in November 1949
decision of the session of the International Democratic Federation of Women.


On this day, all children are entitled to additional joys,
treats, entertainment and generous gifts.

"Puss in Boots" is one of the most famous fairy tales of the French writer Charles Perrault. This tale was written in the 17th century and has been loved by children for several centuries.

For a long time in Russia, the three most popular types of plush toys are bears, pigs and cats in boots.
And among all the fabulous animals, the puss in boots is always the most fabulous.

Puss in Boots
Fairy tale with pictures by Charles Perrault

The miller had three sons, and, dying, he left them only a mill, a donkey and a cat.

The brothers divided among themselves the paternal property without a judge and a notary who would swallow all their poor inheritance quickly.

The eldest got the mill. The middle one is a donkey. And the youngest had to take a cat.

The poor fellow could not be comforted for a long time, having received such a miserable share of the inheritance.

Brothers, he said, can honestly earn their living if they only stick together. And what will become of me after I eat my cat and make a muff out of his skin? Just die of hunger!

The cat heard these words, but did not show it either, but said calmly and judiciously:

Don't be sad, master. Give me a bag and order a pair of boots to make it easier to wander through the bushes, and you will see for yourself that you are not as offended as it seems to you now.

The owner of the cat himself didn’t know whether to believe it or not, but he remembered well what tricks the cat had embarked on when he was hunting rats and mice, how deftly he pretended to be dead, now hanging on his hind legs, now burying himself almost with his head in flour. Who knows, and suddenly, in fact, he will help in some way in trouble!

As soon as the cat got everything he needed, he quickly put on his shoes, stamped valiantly, threw the sack over his shoulder and, holding it by the laces with his front paws, walked into the protected forest, where there were many rabbits. And in the sack he had bran and hare cabbage.

Stretching out on the grass and pretending to be dead, he began to wait for some inexperienced rabbit, who had not yet had time to experience on his own skin how evil and insidious the light was, would climb into a bag to feast on the food that had been reserved for him.

He did not have to wait long: some young gullible simpleton rabbit immediately jumped into his sack. Without thinking twice, the cat tightened its laces, and the stupid rabbit was trapped.

After that, proud of his prey, the cat went straight to the palace and asked the king for a reception. He was led into the royal chambers.

He made a respectful bow to His Majesty and said:

Your Majesty, here is a rabbit from the forests of the Marquis de Carabas (he invented such a name for his master). My lord has ordered me to present you with this modest gift.

“Thank your lord,” the king replied, “and tell him that he gave me great pleasure.

A few days later, the cat went to the field and there, hiding among the ears, opened his sack again.

This time two partridges were trapped by him. He quickly tightened his laces and carried both of them to the king.

The king willingly accepted this gift and ordered to give the cat a tip.

Two or three months passed in this way. The cat now and then brought the king game, as if it had been hunted by his master, the Marquis de Carabas.

And then one day the cat learned that the king, along with his daughter, the most beautiful princess in the world, was going to take a carriage ride along the river bank.

The cat immediately ran to his marquis:

Do you agree to take my advice? he asked his master. - In that case, happiness is in our hands. All that is required of you is to go swimming in the river, wherever I show you. Leave the rest to me.

The Marquis de Carabas obediently did everything that the cat advised him, although he did not even know what it was for.

While he was swimming, the cat hid the master's dress under a large stone.

Soon the royal carriage drove to the river bank.

The cat rushed as fast as he could and shouted at the top of his lungs:

This way, this way! Help! The Marquis de Carabas is drowning!

The king heard this cry, opened the carriage door and, recognizing the cat, who had brought him game so many times as a gift, immediately sent his guards to rescue the Marquis de Carabas.

While the poor marquis was being dragged out of the water, the cat managed to tell the king that the thieves had stolen everything from the master while bathing.

The king immediately ordered his courtiers to bring one of the finest garments of the royal wardrobe for the Marquis de Carabas.

The outfit turned out to be at the right time, and to the face, and since the marquis was already small even wherever - handsome and stately, then, having dressed up, he, of course, became even better, and the royal daughter, looking at him, found that he just to her taste.

When the Marquis de Carabas threw two or three glances in her direction, very respectful and at the same time gentle, she fell in love with him without memory.

Her father, the young marquis, also fell in love with. The king was very kind to him and even invited him to sit in the carriage and take part in the walk.

The cat was delighted that everything was going like clockwork, and merrily ran in front of the carriage.

On the way, he saw peasants mowing hay in the meadow.

Hey, good people, ”he shouted as he ran,“ if you don’t tell the king that this meadow belongs to the Marquis de Carabas, you will all be chopped to pieces like a filling for a pie! Know so!

Just then the royal carriage drove up, and the king asked, looking out of the window:

Whose meadow are you mowing?

However, Marquis, you have a glorious estate here! said the king.

Yes, sir, this meadow yields excellent hay every year, ”the marquis replied modestly.

Meanwhile, the cat ran forward and forward until he saw the reapers on the road working in the field.

Hey, good people, ”he shouted,“ if you don’t tell the king that all these loaves belong to the Marquis de Carabas, then you should know: you will all be chopped into pieces, like a filling for a pie!

A minute later the king drove up to the reapers and wanted to find out whose fields they were reaping.

The fields of the Marquis de Carabas, replied the reapers.

And the king was again glad for the mister marquis.

And the cat kept running forward and ordered everyone who met him to say the same thing: “This is the house of the Marquis de Carabas”, “This is the mill of the Marquis de Carabas”, “this is the garden of the Marquis de Carabas”.

The king could not marvel at the wealth of the young marquis.

And finally, the cat ran to the gates of the beautiful castle. There lived a very rich man-eating giant. No one in the world has ever seen a giant richer than this. All the lands on which the royal carriage rode were in his possession.

The cat found out in advance what kind of giant it was, what his strength was, and asked to be admitted to the owner. He, they say, cannot and does not want to pass by without having paid his respects.

The cannibal received him with all the courtesy that a cannibal is capable of after a hearty meal, and invited him to rest.

I was assured, - said the cat, - that you know how to turn into any animal. Well, for example, as if you can turn into a lion or an elephant ...

Can! the giant barked. - And in order to prove it, now I will become a lion! Look!

The cat was so frightened when he saw a lion in front of him that in an instant he climbed up the drainpipe to the roof, although it was difficult and even dangerous, because it is not so easy to walk on the tiles in boots.

Only when the giant again assumed its former appearance, the cat came down from the roof and confessed to the owner that he almost died of fear.

And they also assured me, - he said, - but this is something I just can't believe that you supposedly know how to transform even into the smallest animals. Well, for example, become a rat or even a mouse. I have to tell you the truth that I think this is completely impossible.

Oh, that's how! Impossible? the giant asked. - Come on, look!

And at the same instant he turned into a mouse. The mouse quickly ran across the floor, but the cat chased after it and swallowed at once.

Meanwhile, the king, passing by, noticed a beautiful castle on the way and wished to enter there.

The cat heard the wheels of the king's carriage rattling on the drawbridge, and, running out to meet him, said to the king:

Welcome to the castle of the Marquis de Carabas, your majesty! Welcome!

How, Monsieur Marquis ?! - exclaimed the king. - Is this castle yours too? You cannot imagine anything more beautiful than this courtyard and buildings around. Yes, it's just a palace! Let's see what it is like inside, if you don't mind.

The marquis gave his hand to the beautiful princess and led her after the king, who, as expected, walked in front.

All three of them entered the great hall, where a magnificent dinner was prepared.

Just on that day, the cannibal invited his friends to his place, but they did not dare to appear, having learned that the king was visiting the castle.

The king was fascinated by the merits of the Marquis de Carabas almost as much as his daughter, who was simply crazy about the Marquis.

In addition, His Majesty, of course, could not fail to appreciate the wonderful possessions of the Marquis and, having drained five or six cups, said:

If you want to become my son-in-law, Mr. Marquis, it depends only on you. I agree.

The Marquis thanked the King with a respectful bow for the honor shown to him, and on the same day he married the princess.

And the cat became a noble nobleman and since then hunted mice only occasionally - for his own pleasure.

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Fairy dictionaries. Russian history.

Russian folk tale for kids
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Fairy houses 11-20
Write your own stories about those who live in these houses.

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We sculpt fabulous houses from plasticine
or from salted dough

To make a salty dough, take equal amounts of salt and flour, add a little water and knead thoroughly to make an elastic dough.
We carefully paint the finished product with gouache.
For the dough to harden well, dry the products at room temperature for 2-4 days (depending on the size).
After complete drying (4-5 days), the product can be covered with transparent varnish - so it will become even more beautiful, more hygienic and more durable.
Various children's toys can be made from salted dough.

Sculpt your house and come up with
who lives in it, what does he do,
and what adventures he has.

Pictures "FAIRY TALES OF THE SEA"
Pictures 42nd - 45th

Compose fairy tales or stories from these pictures
and tell them to your friends and parents.

Natural phenomena - 1
Volcanic eruption in South America

Constellations of the zodiac
Horoscopes for fun

Let's cook and eat

Bento- Japanese version of the packed lunch, which is taken to school.
The colorfully decorated bento are very convenient for children's receptions in nature.
Traditionally, this type of food consists of two parts: half of the entire serving is rice, incl. colored, the other part is protein products (fish, meat, eggs) and vegetables.
Very often, bento from a simple dinner turns into a real work of art, which is equally attractive in appearance and taste.

How to build such a wonderful bento -
see on the page ""
and in the section ""

The palette of delicious paints of the salad artist
By mixing different "paints" you can get many different colors and shades.
Of course, the range of possible culinary "colors" is much wider than those indicated here - include all the amazing richness of your unbridled creative imagination.

Red- sweet peppers, tomatoes, pomegranate seeds, cranberries; burgundy- boiled beets; pink- beet or cranberry juice; Orange- carrots, carrot juice, tomato paste; yellow- egg yolk, bell peppers, corn kernels, saffron-dyed rice; green- greens, bell peppers, olives, green peas, cucumbers, boiled spinach rubbed through a sieve, coloring white products with squeezed juice of boiled spinach; blue- grated egg white or rice colored with raw red cabbage juice; lilac- grated egg white, colored with raw beet juice; purple- red cabbage; White- egg white, radish, radish, potatoes, rice, sour cream, cottage cheese; black- olives, prunes.

For details, see the page ""
and on the page "".
Also " ".

Dishes for the delight of children

Step 1.
Fold a sheet of thick white paper (Whatman paper) or thin white cardboard in half. If whatman paper is thin, you can fold it in two layers.

Step 2.
Put the chicken egg in cold water, bring to a boil and cook from boiling for 8-10 minutes. Then briefly rinse with cold water and peel while it is hot (a cold egg is not good).
Step 3.
We place a hot egg in a folded sheet of paper, put a wooden stick on top, for example, a round pencil (see photo) and clamp the structure with an elastic band.

Step 4.
Leave to stand for 10-15 minutes. Ready!

We take out the egg.

Cut in half and use to decorate dishes.

Cut a heart out of a thin slice of bread with a mold.
Then, in this mold, fry the fried eggs in butter and put them on the cut out slice of bread.
The bread can be pre-fried in oil, turning it into a hot toast.
Serve immediately.

Frying eggs in a mold.

Heart-shaped roasting dish.
On sale there are special molds for scrambled eggs in the form of a heart, a flower, etc.
If such a mold is not at hand, it is very easy to make it with scissors from a suitable tin can.

Roasting flower mold.

Frying an omelet with vegetables in a mold.
Such omelettes can be used to decorate salad, pate, hot mashed potatoes, porridge, etc.

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Fried eggs, fried in a round cut from sweet pepper, can be served as a hot snack or used to decorate various dishes.

Cut the sausage in half lengthwise, leaving one tip connected. We roll up the resulting halves connected on one side into a ring and fasten it with a wooden toothpick, as shown in the photo.
Place in a preheated pan with oil and fry on one side.
Turn over, drive in the egg into the middle and fry the fried eggs until cooked.

We take out the toothpick and use it to garnish various dishes.

When cooking fried eggs, rinse the shells and save. Then we paint in different colors. How to paint - see p.
We fill the shells with earth and germinate various seeds in them.

Candles in eggshells dyed in different colors.

Using curly molds or a knife, using a stencil cut from a Whatman paper, we cut out various figures (for example, hearts) from slices of bread.
If desired, these slices can be fried in oil and allowed to cool.
Grease the slices of bread with butter on top and on the sides. Roll the sides abundantly in finely chopped greens.
Put some caviar on top of the oil, place a thin slice of lemon, plant a rose of oil and decorate with a leaf of greenery.
To decorate curly sandwiches, you can use all sorts of other products to taste and availability.

Variants of the composition of the mass for the balls:
1) Grated cheese + mayonnaise or thick sour cream.
2) Shredded feta cheese in half with cottage cheese.
The mass can be seasoned to taste, for example, with mashed garlic.
Knead everything thoroughly until plastic.
Roll the balls after wetting your hands in cold water.
You can place a nut inside each ball.
Then bread some of the balls in sesame, some in sweet paprika, and some in very finely chopped dill.
ADVICE. For very fine cutting, the dill must be allowed to dry well after rinsing - the dried dill is easily chopped with a knife and adheres well to the cheese balls.

» Puss in Boots. Charles Perrault's fairy tale

Dean the miller left a small inheritance to his three sons - a mill, a donkey and a cat. The brothers immediately divided their father's inheritance: the eldest took a mill, the middle one - a donkey, and the youngest was given a cat.

The younger brother was very sad that he got such a bad inheritance.

Brothers can honestly earn themselves a piece of bread if they live together, - he said. - And when I eat my cat and sew mittens from his skin, I will have to starve to death.

The cat heard these words, but was not offended.

Do not grieve, master, - he said importantly and seriously, - better give me a bag and a pair of boots, so that it would be more convenient to walk through the bushes. You will see then that your inheritance is not as bad as you think

The owner of the Cat did not really believe his words. But I remembered about his various tricks and thought: "Maybe the Cat will really help me in some way!"

As soon as the Cat received the boots from the owner, he deftly put them on. Then he put cabbage in a sack, threw the sack behind his back and went into the forest, where there were many rabbits.

He came into the forest, hid behind the bushes and began to wait for some silly young rabbit to put himself in a sack for cabbage.

Before he had time to hide, he was immediately lucky: a young, trusting rabbit climbed into the sack. The cat quickly rushed to the bag and tightened the strings tightly.

Very proud that the hunt was so successful, the Cat went to the palace and asked to be admitted to the king.

He was led into the royal chambers. Entering there, the Cat bowed deeply to the king and said:
- Great king! The Marquis Karabas (as Kotu took it into his head to name his master) ordered me to bring you this rabbit as a present.

Tell your master, replied the king, that I am very pleased with his gift and thank him.

The cat bowed and left the palace. Another time he hid in a field, among the ears of wheat, and opened a bag of bait. When two partridges fell into the bag, the Cat immediately took the partridges to the king. The king gladly accepted the partridges and ordered to treat the Cat with wine.

So for two or three months in a row, the Cat carried different game to the king on behalf of the Marquis of Carabas. One day the Cat learned that the king was going to ride along the river bank in a carriage for a walk with his daughter, the most beautiful princess in the world.

He said to his master:
- If you listen to me, you will be happy all your life. Go swim in the river today in the place that I will indicate, I will arrange the rest myself!

The owner obeyed the Cat and went to the river, although he did not understand what benefit he would get from it.

While he was swimming, the king was passing along the bank.
The cat was already waiting for him, and as soon as the carriage approached, he shouted with all his might:

Help! Help! The Marquis Carabas is drowning!

The king heard a cry and looked out of the carriage. He recognized the Cat, who had already brought him game so many times, and ordered his servants to run to the aid of the Marquis Carabas as soon as possible.

While the Marquis was being dragged out of the river, the Cat went to the carriage and told the King that when the Marquis was bathing, the thieves took away all his clothes, even though he was a Cat, he called for help with all his might and shouted loudly: “Thieves! The thieves!"
But in fact, the rogue himself hid his master's clothes under a large stone.

The king ordered his courtiers to bring one of his finest outfits to the Marquis Carabas at once.

When the marquis was dressed, the king began to talk to him affectionately, then invited him to sit in the carriage and ride.

The miller's son was slender and handsome. In a luxurious royal outfit, he became even more beautiful, and the young princess immediately fell in love with him without memory.

The cat was delighted that everything turned out as he intended. He ran ahead of the carriage, and when he saw the mowers in the meadow, he shouted to them:

Hey, mowers! If you don’t tell the king that this meadow belongs to the Marquis Carabas, you will be immediately chopped to pieces!

When the carriage approached the meadow, the king really asked the mowers whose meadow they were mowing.

Ah, marquis, what a beautiful meadow you have! said the king.

Indeed, sir! - answered the marquis. - Every year there is a wonderful hay harvest in this meadow.

And the Cat ran forward again, saw the reapers and shouted to them:

Hey reapers! If you don't tell the king that all these fields belong to the Marquis Carabas, you will all be chopped to pieces!

Driving past the fields, the king wanted to know who owned these fields.

To Mr. Marquis Karabas! - answered the reapers.
The king again praised the property of the marquis. And the Cat kept running in front of the carriage and ordered everyone he met to say the same thing. And the king could not marvel at the wealth of the Marquis of Carabas.