Charles Perrault

• Biography

  Charles Perrault (1628–1703) was a French author and intellectual. Known as a founding writer of the fairy tale genre, he rewrote numerous folk tales, including Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Blue Beard, and Puss in Boots. His stories, which continue to enjoy worldwide acclaim, have been adapted to opera, ballet, theater, and film.

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  “Children of all ages love the classic and iconic character Winnie-the-Pooh in many forms, and here is a fully engaging audiobook…Beautifully narrated by Barbara Rosenblat, this collection of short stories will linger in the hearts and minds of all listeners. She masterfully delights in and embodies wonder, innocence, and imagination. Rosenblat’s tender performance is paced perfectly for young children as they sit cross-legged on the floor or curl up next to their loved ones at bedtime. Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award.” —AudioFile on Winnie-The-Pooh

  “Barbara Rosenblat brings her inimitable vocal energy and joy to every project, and this crisp production with original music is no exception. As with all good fairy tales, the fairies get the best lines, and Rosenblat, Noelle Dupuis, and Ellin Wallin have a wonderful time bickering and bantering as the three buzzing, bee-sized fairies…Rosenblat’s over-the-top New York accent will have adults and children laughing out loud while listening to this age-old story.” —AudioFile

  “This agreeable ensemble cast rendering of Cinderella holds appeal for fairy-tale fans of all ages. Narrator Michael Dick’s seasoned voice is ideal as the story quickly shifts from Cinderella’s kindness to the competitive jealousy of Esmé and Agatha, her stepsisters. Georgia Lee Schultz’s endearing portrayal of Cinderella is convincing whether she’s dealing with her nasty step-family, a desperate beggar, or the prince. Superior sound effects such as the stepmother’s demanding bell, Cinderella’s sweeping, and the clock striking midnight add to the ambiance. Mary Ellen Herder is fully believable as the spiteful, greedy stepmother whose list of chores for Cinderella is never-ending. Listeners will be entertained by Cinderella’s conversations with her cat, Mr. Pettipaws, and the shrewdly imparted conclusion.” —AudioFile

  “A resplendent narration and enchanting sound effects make this edition of Grimm’s 1812 fairy tale quite irresistible. Georgia Lee Schultz’s warm voice is ideal for the portrayal of Snow White, particularly when she talks to her birds. Most impressive is Mary Ellen Herder’s Evil Queen; her harsh voice and disturbing cackle are spot-on. First-rate sound effects add atmosphere…When Snow White runs away, she meets the dwarves, whose chirpy voices and offbeat humor add fun. The comforting sound of the Prince brings a happy ending when he weds Snow White, bringing peace to their kingdoms.” —AudioFile on Snow White

  “A classic story retold in a fun and engaging way by the excellent team at Voices in the Wind…The cast did an excellent job with this story. The voice of Tormaleen, performed by Barbara Rosenblat, is an exceptional standout…The sound design and music also mesh very well with the story…A fun story that is worth listening to with the whole family.” —Audio Theatre Central

  “Georgia Lee Schultz does a splendid job as Cinderella, embodying the sweet, youthful innocence and kindness of the character perfectly. Other notable performances are Brady Van Vaerenbergh as the Prince and Ellin Wallin as the Old Woman and Fairy Godmother, both of whom fill their respective parts very well.” —J. D. Sutter, Audio Theatre Central, Porchlight Family Media

  “When it comes to turning fairy tales into audio dramas, Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre is one of the best. Over the years, they have re-imagined many classic tales as full-length audio features…Their newest release of Sleeping Beauty will be [a] treat.” —Catherine Rinella, host of “Midnight Audio Theatre,” WCBE, Columbus, Ohio

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  • Diamonds and Toads

  • By Charles Perrault

    Adapted and read by Madeline Walton-Hadlock

  • Release Date: 4/16/24

  • Formats: cpid_11

  In this story by the French writer Charles Perrault, a fairy gives two sisters the magical gifts they deserve.

  • Diamonds and Toads

  • By Charles Perrault

    Adapted and read by Madeline Walton-Hadlock

  • Release Date: 4/16/24

  • Formats: cpid_11

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  • Caperucita roja

  • By Charles Perrault

    Translated by Madeline Walton-Hadlock

    Read by Lorena Romero

  • Release Date: 3/12/24

  • Formats: cpid_11

  Un cuento tradicional sobre una niña y un lobo. / A traditional tale about a girl and a wolf.

  • Caperucita roja

  • By Charles Perrault

    Translated by Madeline Walton-Hadlock

    Read by Lorena Romero

  • Release Date: 3/12/24

  • Formats: cpid_11

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  • The Ultimate Classic Collection for Children

  • Stories by L. M. Montgomery, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, The Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Frances Hodgson Burnett, George Zarr, and L. Frank Baum

    Performed by a full cast

  • Release Date: 6/21/22

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  This delightful collection of thirteen children’s classic stories features Alice in Wonderland*, The Bell, A Christmas Carol, Cinderella*, Emily of New Moon, The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid, Little Red Riding Hood, Scourge of the Desert**, The Secret Garden, Sleeping Beauty*, Snow White*, and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

  *Awarded Gold (full-cast dramatization) – HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival
  ** International Radio Festival Winner

  • The Ultimate Classic Collection for Children

  • Stories by L. M. Montgomery, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Hans Christian Andersen, The Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, Frances Hodgson Burnett, George Zarr, and L. Frank Baum

    Performed by a full cast

  • Release Date: 6/21/22

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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  • Stories from the Forest

  • By A. A. Milne, Charles Perrault, and The Brothers Grimm

    Read by Barbara Rosenblat, Georgia Lee Schultz, and a full cast

  • Release Date: 6/21/22

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  Stories from the Forest is an anthology of children’s classic tales set in the woods. This collection includes Winnie-the-Pooh narrated by multiaward-winning golden voice Barbara Rosenblat, Little Red Riding Hood narrated by ATC Seneca Award nominee for Best Leading Actress (Cinderella) Georgia Lee Schultz, and Snow White, a full-cast audio theater presentation.

  Snow White — Awarded Gold by HEAR NOW: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival
  Winnie-the-Pooh — Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award

  • Stories from the Forest

  • By A. A. Milne, Charles Perrault, and The Brothers Grimm

    Read by Barbara Rosenblat, Georgia Lee Schultz, and a full cast

  • Release Date: 6/21/22

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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  • Fairy Tales by Mother Goose

  • By Charles Perrault

    Read by John Rayburn

  • Release Date: 12/21/21

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  A seventeenth-century writer named Charles Perrault was sometimes called Mother Goose, an imaginary author of fairy tales. His early material was inspired and derived from earlier folk tales that he greatly embellished and improved. The Mother Goose creation was actually based on European popular tradition. She was never identified as an actual person but instead was merely a way of calling attention to popular and rural storytelling. The tales most often ended with a moral, such as: “Good manners are not easy/ They need a little care,/ But when we least expect it/ Bring rewards both rich and rare.”

  One of the most popular versions of the long-ago tales was “Cinderella,” and Perrault made several modifications to the original, these including the pumpkin carriage, fairy godmother, and the initial mention of the “glass slippers.”

  This collection includes that story, along with other such known favorites as “Sleeping Beauty,” “Little Red Riding Hood,” “Blue Beard,” and “Puss in Boots,” along with such lesser known fairy tales as “The Ridiculous Wishes,” “Little Thumb,” “Ricky of the Tuft,” “Griselda,” and “Donkey Skin.”

  Some of the stories were told similar to the style in which they had been written well more than three hundred years ago, with revisions in the telling over the years.

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  • Fairy Tales by Mother Goose

  • By Charles Perrault

    Read by John Rayburn

  • Release Date: 12/21/21

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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  • The Children's Classic Collection, Vol. 2

  • Stories by Lewis Carroll, Charles Perrault, The Brothers Grimm, and George Zarr

    Adapted by Diane Vanden Hoven and George Zarr

    Performed by a full cast

  • Release Date: 4/13/21

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  A Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre Production

  This enticing ensemble of children’s classic stories with sound effects and original songs features a full cast of voice actors, including multi-award-winning voice talent Barbara Rosenblat and ATC Seneca Award nominee Georgia Lee Schultz. Included in the collection are Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Little Red Riding Hood, and International Radio Festival winner Scourge of the Desert. An engaging listening experience for the young and the young at heart!

  • The Children's Classic Collection, Vol. 2

  • Stories by Lewis Carroll, Charles Perrault, The Brothers Grimm, and George Zarr

    Adapted by Diane Vanden Hoven and George Zarr

    Performed by a full cast

  • Release Date: 4/13/21

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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  • Sleeping Beauty

  • By Charles Perrault

    Adapted for audio by Diane Vanden Hoven and George Zarr

    Directed by George Zarr

    Performed by Barbara Rosenblat, Georgia Lee Schultz, and a full cast

  • Release Date: 11/17/20

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  Sleeping Beauty magically comes to life in this adaptation of the timeless classic featuring multi-award-winning voice talent Barbara Rosenblat and Georgia Lee Schultz as Aurora.

  On the birth of Princess Aurora, an evil fairy places a curse on her and declares that before the sun sets on her sixteenth birthday, she will die by pricking her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. To protect her from the evil spell, the king agrees to place Aurora in the care of three spirited good fairies who live in a cottage in the woods. One of the fairies conjures a spell so Aurora will fall into a deep sleep instead, to be awakened only by a kiss from her true love.

  This dramatized version of Sleeping Beauty features a full cast of beloved characters accompanied by original music and sound effects.

  • Sleeping Beauty

  • By Charles Perrault

    Adapted for audio by Diane Vanden Hoven and George Zarr

    Directed by George Zarr

    Performed by Barbara Rosenblat, Georgia Lee Schultz, and a full cast

  • Release Date: 11/17/20

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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  • Wonder Tales: Favorite Fairy Tales from Around the World

  • By The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Charles Perrault, Madame de Beaumont, and Joseph Jacobs

    Edited by Elizabeth Klett

    Read by Elizabeth Klett

  • Release Date: 10/13/20

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  This collection of forty fairy tales contains well-known favorites from authors like the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Charles Perrault, Madame de Beaumont, and Joseph Jacobs. It also collects rare gems from folk tale traditions around the world, from Germany to China, from Scandinavia to Arabia, from Russia to Japan, and from Italy to Canada. These beautiful, frightening, funny, romantic, and whimsical stories will introduce you to princesses in peril, beastly brides and grooms, adults and children behaving badly, daring and adventurous girls, and clever and devious tricksters. These wondrous tales will be enjoyed by listeners both young and old.

  • Wonder Tales: Favorite Fairy Tales from Around the World

  • By The Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, Oscar Wilde, Charles Perrault, Madame de Beaumont, and Joseph Jacobs

    Edited by Elizabeth Klett

    Read by Elizabeth Klett

  • Release Date: 10/13/20

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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  • Cinderella

  • By Charles Perrault

    Adapted for audio by Diane Vanden Hoven

    A Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre production

    Performed by a full cast

  • Release Date: 11/27/18

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  In this classic children’s tale of triumph over adversity, Cinderella is condemned to a life of servitude by an uncaring stepmother and the constant torment of her jealous stepsisters. Throughout her suffering, Cinderella maintains her kindness, until one day she is rewarded by meeting her true love—the handsome Prince.

  Featuring Georgia Lee Schultz (Alice in Wonderland, Snow White) as Cinderella, Mary Ellen Herder (Snow White) as the Stepmother and Michael Dick as the Narrator. This dramatized version features a full cast of characters, music, and engaging sound effects.

  • Cinderella

  • By Charles Perrault

    Adapted for audio by Diane Vanden Hoven

    A Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre production

    Performed by a full cast

  • Release Date: 11/27/18

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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  • Another Children’s Listening Library

  • By Alcazar AudioWorks

    Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, The Brothers Grimm, and others

    Read by various narrators

  • Release Date: 1/01/13

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  Enjoy a timeless collection of children's fairy tales from Denmark, England, France, and more. Another Children's Listening Library includes

  1. "The Princess and the Pea" by Hans Christian Andersen
  2. "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen
  3. "The Emperor's New Suit" by Hans Christian Andersen
  4. "The Fir Tree" by Hans Christian Andersen
  5. "The Happy Family" by Hans Christian Andersen
  6. "The Little Match-Seller" by Hans Christian Andersen
  7. "The Little Mermaid" by Hans Christian Andersen
  8. "The Nightingale" by Hans Christian Andersen
  9. "The Pea Blossom" by Hans Christian Andersen
  10. "The Red Shoes" by Hans Christian Andersen
  11. "Thumbelina" by Hans Christian Andersen
  12. "The Brave Tin Soldier" by Hans Christian Andersen
  13. "Whittington and His Cat"
  14. "The Story of the Three Little Pigs"
  15. "Henny Penny"
  16. "Jack the Giant Killer"
  17. "Johnny-Cake"
  18. "The Story of the Three Bears"
  19. "The History of Tom Thumb"
  20. "Jack and the Beanstalk"
  21. "Ashputtel" by the Brothers Grimm
  22. "Cat and Mouse in Partnership" by the Brothers Grimm
  23. "Cat-Skin" by the Brothers Grimm
  24. "Clever Elsie" by the Brothers Grimm
  25. "Hansel and Gretel" by the Brothers Grimm
  26. "Jorinda and Jorindel" by the Brothers Grimm
  27. "Doctor Knowall" by the Brothers Grimm
  28. "Rapunzel" by the Brothers Grimm
  29. "Little Red Cap, or Little Red Riding Hood" by the Brothers Grimm
  30. "The Elves and the Shoemaker" by the Brothers Grimm
  31. "Old Sultan" by the Brothers Grimm
  32. "Snow-White and Rose-Red" by the Brothers Grimm
  33. "Frederick and Catherine" by the Brothers Grimm
  34. "Blue Beard" by Charles Perrault
  35. "Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper" by Charles Perrault
  36. "The Fairies" by Charles Perrault
  37. "The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots" by Charles Perrault
  38. "Little Red Riding Hood" by Charles Perrault
  39. "The Sleeping Beauty" by Charles Perrault
  40. "Little Tom Thumb" by Charles Perrault
  41. "Riquet with the Tuft" by Charles Perrault
  42. "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde
  43. "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde
  44. "The Selfish Giant" by Oscar Wilde
  45. "The Devoted Friend" by Oscar Wilde
  46. "The Remarkable Rocket" by Oscar Wilde

  • Another Children’s Listening Library

  • By Alcazar AudioWorks

    Stories by Hans Christian Andersen, The Brothers Grimm, and others

    Read by various narrators

  • Release Date: 1/01/13

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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  • A Children’s Listening Library

  • By Alcazar AudioWorks

    Featuring works by The Brothers Grimm, Beatrix Potter, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and many more

    Read by Bobbie Frohman, David Thorn, and others

  • Release Date: 1/01/12

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  Enjoy a timeless collection of children's fables, fairy tales, and stories, all available in one audiobook. A Children's Listening Library: Volume 1 includes:

  1. Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes
  2. Selections from the Tales of Beatrix Potter
  3. Beauty & the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont 
  4. "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" by Peter Christen Asbj├©rnsen and J├©rgen Moe
  5. Cinderella based on Charles Perrault's version
  6. "The Frog Prince" and "Rumplestiltskin" by The Brothers Grimm 
  7. "The Land of the Blue Flower" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  8. "Racketty-Packetty House" by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  9. Dollypogs by David Thorn
  10. The Reluctant Dragon by Kenneth Grahame
  11. "The Pied Piper of Hamelin" by Robert Browning
  12. "Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  13. "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving

  • A Children’s Listening Library

  • By Alcazar AudioWorks

    Featuring works by The Brothers Grimm, Beatrix Potter, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and many more

    Read by Bobbie Frohman, David Thorn, and others

  • Release Date: 1/01/12

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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  • Selections from the Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

  • ByCharles Perrault

    Read by Bobbie Frohman

  • Release Date: 1/01/12

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  Enjoy a timeless collection of children's fairy tales from France, written by the legendary Charles Perrault. Stories include

  1. "Blue Beard"
  2. "Cinderella, or, The Little Glass Slipper"
  3. "The Fairies"
  4. "The Master Cat, or Puss in Boots"
  5. "Little Red Riding Hood"
  6. "The Sleeping Beauty"
  7. "Little Tom Thumb"
  8. "Riquet with the Tuft"

  • Selections from the Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

  • ByCharles Perrault

    Read by Bobbie Frohman

  • Release Date: 1/01/12

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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  • Cinderella, The Frog Prince, & Rumplestiltskin

  • By Alcazar AudioWorks

    Based on stories by Charles Perrault and The Brothers Grimm

    Performed by David Thorn and a full cast

  • Release Date: 1/01/02

  • Formats: Digital Audy

  Enjoy three traditional and beloved loved fairy tales known to many generations of children, presented in an entertaining and wonderfully appealing way with a full cast of characters.

  Cinderella

  Poor orphan girl Cinderella longs to go to the grand royal ball, but her cruel stepmother and stepsisters won't allow it. Can her fairy godmother help make her dreams come true?

  The Frog Prince

  The young princess loves playing with her golden ball, until she drops it down a well and it is lost in the murky water. When the frog hears her crying, he offers to help—if she will do him a favor, too.

  Rumplestiltskin

  A beautiful miller's daughter is locked away by the king and told she will never see her family again unless she spins straw into gold. Then an ancient dwarf promises to help—but there is a price to pay.

  • Cinderella, The Frog Prince, & Rumplestiltskin

  • By Alcazar AudioWorks

    Based on stories by Charles Perrault and The Brothers Grimm

    Performed by David Thorn and a full cast

  • Release Date: 1/01/02

  • Formats: Digital Audy

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