Paul Galdone's The Owl and the Pussycat

Here's another version of one of our favorite poems.  Illustrated by Paul Galdone, it has a loose, bright comical flair.   

Here are some other versions we have:

Hilary Knight's The Owl and the Pussy-cat

Jan Brett's The Owl and the Pussycat

Gertrude Elliot's The Owl and the Pussycat

The Owl and the Pussycat

Edward Lear

illustrated by Paul Galdone 1987

I kinda love this shark and rainbow picture!

Rumpelstiltskin by Paul Galdone

 Paul Galdone of Anatole fame retells this fairytale and illustrates it with some wonderful pictures.  I always thought the story of Rumpelstiltskin was odd because it's never explained who he was or where he came from, or why he wanted the baby.  It also bothered me as a little girl that the king only married the miller's daughter because she could turn straw into gold, not because he actually loved her!  And also because her father put her in such an awful position.  But then, fairytales are sometimes like that.

Rumpelstiltskin

retold and illustrated by Paul Galdone 1985

Anatole

Sometimes we like to read about a little French mouse who is the official  cheese tester in M'sieu Duval's cheese factory...

 Anatole

Eve Titus

pictures by Paul Galdone 2010

 Anatole lives outside of Paris with his mouse family.  Secretly he becomes the cheese tester for M'sieu Duval (since, he reasons, mice are the best judges of cheese).  Every night he would taste the cheese and leave a note regarding it's quality.  In no time M'sieu Duval offers Anatole a job and he is happy to be an honorable "businessmouse".

There are other books about Anatole's adventures.  The second book we have, "Anatole and the Thirty Thieves" tells the story of Anatole and his partner Gaston thwarting a band of robbers who have stolen all the cheese from M'sieu Duval's factory.  Since his identity is still a secret and no one suspects that he is a mouse, Anatole is able to move undetected and discover the robbers' plot.

 Anatole and the Thirty Thieves

Eve Titus

pictures by Paul Galdone 1990