Books with author Leslie Brooke

In the second of this wonderful series, Johnny, literature's most hospitable crow, further improves his garden and invites the other animals round for a party. Old favourites are here, such as the Lion, the Bear and the never-mentioned penguins; but new animals are introduced too, such as a French-speaking cockatoo, a sleepy sheep and a kangaroo who likes blue roses. This colour version has been carefully restored to keep as close to the original as possible, faithfully reproducing the detailed pen and ink drawings and the rich colour illustrations.

The traditional, The Three Bears is a classic tale about young girl and her adventure as she curiously wanders into the home of three bears and messes with their belongings. More popularly known as Goldilocks and the Three Bears this version was printed by Frederick Warne & Co in 1904; With numerous drawings in color and black and white by L. Leslie Brooke. The original work has been cleaned and enhanced for your reading pleasure.

Leonard Leslie Brooke (1862-1940) was a British artist and writer. Brooke was born on Sept. 24, 1862, in Birkenhead, England. His skillful and witty illustrations in Andrew Lang's Nursery Rhyme Book (1897) established his reputation as a leading children's book illustrator of pen-andink line drawings and watercolors. His works include: Johnny Crow's Garden: A Picture Book (1903), The Golden Goose Book (1904), The Three Little Pigs (1904), Tom Thumb (1904), Johnny Crow's Party: Another Picture Book (1907), Ring O' Roses: A Nursery Rhyme Picture Book (1922), Johnny Crow's New Garden (1935) and Little Bo-Peep (? ).

Three Little Pigs is a fairy tale featuring talking animals. Printed versions date back to the 1840s, but the story itself is thought to be much older. The phrases used in the story, and the various morals which can be drawn from it, have become enshrined in western culture.The tale of the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf was included in Nursery Rhymes and Nursery Tales (London, c.1843), by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. The story in its arguably best-known form appeared English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published in 1890 and crediting Halliwell as his source. The story begins with the title characters being sent out into the world by their mother, to "seek their fortune". The first little pig builds a house of straw, but a wolf blows it down and eats the first little pig. The second pig builds a house of sticks, but with the same ultimate result. Each exchange between wolf and pig features ringing proverbial phrases, namely:"Little pig, little pig, let me come in.""No, no, by the hair on my chiny chin chin.""Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in. The third pig builds a house of hard bricks. The wolf couldn't huff and puff hard enough to blow the house down. He attempts to trick the little pig out of the house, but the pig outsmarts him at every turn. Finally, the wolf resolves to come down the chimney, whereupon the pig boils a pot of water into which the wolf plunges, at which point the pig quickly covers the pot and cooks the wolf for supper.The story utilizes the literary Rule of three, expressed in this case as a "contrasting three", as the third pig's house turns out to be the only one which is adequate to withstand the wolf.[4]Retellings of the story sometimes omit the attempts to trick the third pig, or state that the first pig ran to the second pig's house, then both of them ran to the third brother's house of bricks. The latter is often an attempt to write out death or violence in the story.