Trucks, vans, electric cars, shiny American cars with fins (and teeth??!!), fire engines, racing cars, buses, motor-bikes, jeeps and more…

But just a moment… isn’t that Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf filling up with gas over there? And that’s Hansel and Gretel lost and crying in the Parking House… And a helmeted Cinderella, behind the wheel of a magic dragster? What’s going ON here?

Mauri Kunnas has transplanted five favourite fairy-tales and put the characters into the automobile age, bringing his own inimitable touch to The Three Wishes, Hansel and Gretel, Red Riding Hood, The Billy Goats Gruff, and Cinderella. The detailed illustrations are a delight, and there is a good deal of useful information hidden between the laughs.

Mauri Kunnas's books have been translated into more than 25 languages.