Three Bedtime Stories

by Garth Williams (Illustrator)

clean solid copy. Wonderful book.

Genres: Childrens, Fiction, Picture Books

19 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1958

About the author

Garth Montgomery Williams was an American artist who came to prominence in the American postwar era as an illustrator of children's books. Generations of children picture their favorite fictional characters as drawn by Garth Williams. Thus the unforgettable dapper mouse, Stuart Little, or the kindhearted spider, Charlotte and her pig friend, Wilbur. And many other animals (bears, dogs, kittens, crickets) fantastic creatures (elves, fairies) and children and grown-ups in books by Laura Ingalls Wilder, George Selden, Charlotte Zolotow, Else H. Minarik and many others. Garth Williams was also the writer of seven children's books, like Baby Farm Animals, but it is primarily as an illustrator that he will always be remembered. His most controversial book was Rabbit's Wedding, written and illustrated by him in 1958, for it stirred racial issues.

Reviews

[Marya · Rating 4 out of 5]

Three little bears, three little pigs, and three little kittens make up three bedtime stories. All are very traditional, and the illustrations are the soft watercolors everyone remembers from the little Golden Books.

[Kylie Abecca · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very basic. The stories and the pictures don’t match up at al. In the Three Bears tale it is stated that the little chair ‘broke into two pieces’, yet the picture shows it in about six pieces - which the kids managed to pick up on immediately.

[Gabs · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book but didn’t like the three pigs story

[Smith Family · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved reading this book of Gidos!