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    Puss in Boots: Another Grandma Chatterbox Fairy Tale
    Puss in Boots: Another Grandma Chatterbox Fairy Tale
    Puss in Boots: Another Grandma Chatterbox Fairy Tale
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    Puss in Boots: Another Grandma Chatterbox Fairy Tale

    By Barbara Hayes

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    A retelling of the classic fairy tale for 21st century youngsters by a master storyteller.

    We are all familiar with Puss in Boots, of course, but there is a lot more to him than a pair of boots. What about the hungry snake or the rabbits? The story as we usually hear it today is a very much shortened version of the original.

    Fairy Stories have been told for hundreds and hundreds of years. No one really knows when they started or who first wrote them - or told them I expect. They probably started before many people could read or write.

    Anyway they have been told and retold and everyone who tells them alters them a little bit to suit themselves or to please the people listening.
    So Grandma Chatterbox when she was younger (which was a long time ago) went round and about and over the hills and far away searching for the oldest versions of Fairy Tales which she could find.

    So now Grandma Chatterbox is going to tell you Fairy Stories as close to the oldest versions that she can get. After all it is part of every child’s education to know all the traditional tales.

    Puss in Boots was originally a French folk tale, written down by Charles Perrault in 1695.

    Grandma Chatterbox just loves the old stories, and simply adores telling them to young children. The vocabularly and grammar in these stories is specially adapted to be suitable to younger children. When your children get a little bit older and start to learn to read you will find that the vocabulary contains words that they will be learning. Increase the type size on your tablet or other device and you can read along with your children.

    So, are you ready for a story? Good, then I will begin...

    About the Author
    Barbara Hayes has been a best selling author of children’s books and comics for more than 40 years. She has been published around the world and in numerous languages. And yes - she really is a Grandma!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBretwalda Books
    Release dateApr 2, 2012
    ISBN9781907791963
    Puss in Boots: Another Grandma Chatterbox Fairy Tale
    Author

    Barbara Hayes

    Barbara Hayes worked on the editorial staff and spent many years writing stories and picture strip scripts for the Amalgamated Press, situated in Farringdon Street, which is round the corner from Fleet Street, London. Later Amalgamated Press became Fleetway Publications and subsequently part of the Daily Mirror IPC publishing group.Barbara was just in time to work with some of the old Fleet Street hacks in all their drunken glory before the move away from Fleet Street to modern technical respectability.She got advice straight from the lips of Hugh Cudlipp, the famous editor of the Daily Mirror, and became married to an Amalgamated Press editor, Leonard Matthews, who rose to be a managing editor and then an editorial director.Over the years she has had some 80 books and about 7300 scripts published by companies from England to Australia to South Africa to Florida and back to Holland.She likes to think of herself as an old hack writer who succeeded mainly because she always got her work in on time and the right length - but if you read on carefully you might find quite a few other hints to help you.

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      Book preview

      Puss in Boots - Barbara Hayes

      Grandma Chatterbox's

      Puss in Boots

      by

      Barbara Hayes

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      Published by Bretwalda Books at Smashwords

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      First Published 2012

      Copyright © Bretwalda Books 2012

      ISBN 978-1-907791-96-3

      Grandma Chatterbox has her own FACEBOOK PAGE where you can join the conversation or learn more about Fairy Stories.

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      Puss in Boots

      Long ago and far away there lived a miller named Pierre Armand. He lived in a part of France called Brittany and in those very far off days most of the land was covered by thick, dark forest.

      There

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