Charles Perrault Charles Perrault Charles Perrault (; 12 January 1628 – 16 May 1703) was a French author and member of the Académie Française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from earlier folk tales. The best known of his tales include "Le Petit Chaperon Rouge" ("Little Red Riding Hood"), "Cendrillon" ("Cinderella"), "Le Chat Botté" ("Puss in Boots"), "La Belle au bois Dormant " ("The Sleeping Beauty") and "Barbe Bleue" ("Bluebeard"). Some of Perrault's versions of old stories have influenced the German versions published by the Brothers Grimm more than 100 years later.
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