​Bradford offers a refreshingly different riff on the time-honored classic tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears and in the process breaks the fourth wall in a unique fashion. Characters move off script and step outside the book’s pages.
At the outset, a charming but slightly self-absorbed young Goldilocks welcomes readers into the volume containing her story. Unfortunately Papa Bear, who inadvertently becomes the story's main character, becomes flustered and can't deliver his scripted lines.

Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs
by Mo Willems

Somebody and the Three Blairs
by Marilyn Tolhurst ill Simone Abel

Goldilocks and the Three Bears
by James Marshall

And thus it begins. In the hands of a skilled storyteller, Wild Swans weaves its magic with lustrous words and images.

The King of the North was blessed with eleven sons and one daughter Eliza. A plague swept through the land, taking the lives of many, including his wife. The king remarries a woman who possess powerful skills of healing and magic. She sends the brothers away to teach them about the world, as well as protect them from the plague. Casting a spell upon the boys, they become swans by day, human at night. Eliza grows up, far from the plague-riddled kingdom, learning to spin and knit. When she receives word that her father and stepmother have succumbed to the plague, she goes in search of her brothers. Eliza learns that she can reverse the stepmother’s enchantment by gathering nettles, spinning the prickly fibers into yarn and knitting a tunic for each boy. Time runs out. She completes all but the sleeve of the eleventh tunic. Tossing a tunic upon each swan, the boys permanently become human. One brother retains a white wing, due to the missing sleeve. The princes return to rule the eleven kingdoms of the north. Eliza is crowned Queen  and rules over all.

Knight is a British storyteller and performance artist. Among her many honors she has performed at the Smithsonian, Ulster Museum, and Harvard Art Gallery. She was Storyteller in Residence for the Chelsea Physic Garden and Stoke Staffordshire Libraries, Storyteller Educator for Tate Galleries, and Lecturer in Drama and Storytelling at the University of East London.  She brings her considerable talents to the printed page in this exquisite fairy tale retelling.

Charlotte Gastaut is a talented French artist. Her work includes an extensive variety of projects. In addition to book illustration she has been commissioned by companies such as Godiva to create product packaging.  
Her work has also been embraced by the fashion world.  Some of her illustrations were reproduced on dresses of Maison Fendi, for a fashion show at Rome's Trevi Fountain.
The collection was designed by Karl Lagerfeld. Gorgeous design. Sumptuous art.