'A Fairy Garland - Being Fairy Tales from the Old French' contains a collection of stories, written by Charles Perrault, Madame D'Aulnoy and Count Anthony Hamilton.
Six entertaining, engaging, and educational stories Cheeky Chair, Shauns Trip to Shiraz, Thimbu, The Three-Legged Creature And A Magic Thimble, Colonsay Island And A Long-Tailed Creature, The Bumble Bee Queens Palace On The Sea and After A New Phenomenon aim to help children learn the fifth group of sounds: Ch, Sh, th/ th, ay/ ai and ee/ ea.
Grandpas Red Suspenders is a short novelette of the memories a little child has of how much Grandpa loved his red suspenders, and because he loved them so much, the child tells of where and when Grandpa wore them.
Most of the stories here may initially seem to be just ordinary ones for children, but they really are for children of all ages, as the book title suggests.
After failing to tempt him to their own vices, Santa is kidnapped from the Laughing Valley by the five Daemons of the Caves (Daemons of Selfishness, Envy, Hatred, Malice, and Repentance) on Christmas Eve.
There she sits, a trifle loppy and loose-jointed, looking me squarely in the face in a straightforward, honest manner, a twinkle where her shoe-button eyes reflect the electric light.
The tales in the book (and also those in The Second Jungle Book which followed in 1895, and which includes five further stories about Mowgli) are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons.