The Apprentice Storyteller, Gaël Aymon, Siegfried de Turckheim

It's not easy being the son of the great Charles Perrault... At twelve years old, Pierre is sent to the countryside to write the collection of poems that will make him known at Versailles. To avoid the chore, the boy tells himself that collecting stories from an old nurse and then transcribing them shouldn't take too much effort. But the first story, that of a little girl eaten by a wolf, makes no sense and is only three lines long! It will take much more to captivate readers. Fortunately, Pierre has a boundless imagination and plenty to feed it. Every night, he has strange encounters: a little Mariette dressed in a red hood, a Sir Leloup with a bluish beard, seven little ogresses... Enough to give the apprentice storyteller some ideas.