My First Picture Book

A family makes a home inside a giant’s abandoned shoe—but their father is still a prisoner in his castle. So Strong-arm takes up his sword and strides straight toward the dragon guarding him.

Joseph Martin Kronheim’s late-nineteenth-century picture book opens with letters and familiar nursery rhymes, then gives old tales a lively, unexpected turn. In its pages, Little Bo-Peep’s sheep follow a dancing bell-wether into the wood, while Strong-arm and his brothers must face a giant to bring their father home. There are forests, castles, brave children and dangers both comic and unsettling, brought to life in colourful pictures. How will a boy with a sword fare against a dragon—and a giant?

With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world.

Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We give them the treatment they deserve; our proprietary process restores books for a better overall user experience in design, readability, and e-reader compatibility.