Books with title Children's Hour with Red Riding Hood and Other Stories

Watty Piper was a pseudonym used by the publishing house Platt & Munk, who played an important part in the early development of the picture book market with the publication of the Never Grow Old Series of children’s hardcover picture books. Beginning in 1930, the nine book series included retellings of several Mother Goose stories, and also included a ‘new’ edition of Helen Bannerman’s Little Black Sambo, illustrated by Eulalie Banks. The best known incarnation of the story The Little Engine That Could is attributed to Watty Piper with illustrations by Lois Lenski, this retelling of the tale The Pony Engine appeared in 1930. Other children’s books published using the pseudonym Watty Piper include: Children’s Hour with Red Riding Hood and Other Stories (1922), Animal Friends Story Book (1928), Fairy Tales Children Love (1932) and Bumper Book (1946).

This great collection of short stories for children includes five fairy tales. The stories are: (1) Little Red Riding Hood, (2) The Goose-Girl, (3) Babes in the Wood, (4) The Sleeping Beauty, and (5) Snowdrop and Seven Little Dwarfs. It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of these timeless stories. This edition is amply illustrated.

There was once a sweet little maid who lived with her father and mother in a pretty little cottage at the edge of the village. At the further end of the wood was another pretty cottage and in it lived her grandmother.Everybody loved this little girl, her grandmother perhaps loved her most of all and gave her a great many pretty things. Once she gave her a red cloak with a hood which she always wore, so people called her Little Red Riding Hood.One morning Little Red Riding Hood's mother said, "Put on your things and go to see your grandmother. She has been ill; take along this basket for her. I have put in it eggs, butter and cake, and other dainties."