What makes this cute series of picture books about fairy tales, folk tales, nursery rhymes, and classic children’s stories different from other series of its type are the pictures. The pictures are all photographs of tableaux with detailed puppets, and the cover images are 3D holograms!

While the copies I’ve seen were printed in English, the books in the series were originally written and the pictures produced in Japan. The English copies were also printed and bound in Japan.

Books in the Series:

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The Three Little Kittens

Jack and the Beanstalk

The Little Red Hen (1968)

Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

Counting Rhyme

Peter Rabbit