I like story anthologies (take up less room!) for my children and I recently ordered this, Grimms Fairy Tales and The Illustrated Alice (both the others are also excellent excellent books). They absolutely adored the first story where characters from the rest of the book jump from the page and bake a cake. We looked through the pictures and they were very excited to find the characters and were desperate to read those particular stories. My eldest boy (5) now calls it 'the magical book' and he opens it very carefully (and in great excitement) in case a strange creature jumps out of the page or he sees them moving about. Beautifully illustrated and the stories are quite short which is a nice change from the other two which are much longer.