The Sleeping Beauty (ballet) based on the Brothers Grimm's version of Perrault's work entitled 'Dornröschen'. In that version, the Princess's parents (the King and the Queen) survived the 100-year sleep to celebrate the Princess's wedding to the Prince. However, Vsevolozhsky incorporated Perrault's other characters from his stories into the ballet, such as Puss in Boots, Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Bluebird, Bluebeard, Ricky of the Tuft and Tom Thumb. Other French fairy tale characters to be featured are Beauty and the Beast, Pretty Goldilocks and The White Cat. Regardless, Tchaikovsky was happy to inform the Director of the Imperial Theatre that he had great
Grandpa Read's Quiet Time Tales was to "create calming and soothing children's entertainment which fires children's imaginations and inspires a love of stories, story-telling while providing guilt-free time for parents." The first collection of Quiet Time Tales was released in September 2009 and contains 60 stories with 10 illustrations per story and 13 original songs. The stories in the first collection include: Volume 1: The Three Bears, The Talking Fish, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Polly of the Circus Volume 2: Jack and the Beanstalk, The White Cat, Robin Hood, The Mermaid, Rapunzel Volume 3: Little Red Riding Hood, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Land