Contes de Grimm.

Fairy tales are the ideal first literature in a new language: you already know the plots, the sentences are short, and the vocabulary repeats naturally from tale to tale. This volume gathers ten Grimm classics in the elegant French of their 19th-century translators, lightly modernised so you never learn an outdated spelling.

Beneath each French word sits its literal English meaning. You keep your reading momentum through every tale, and because the glosses preserve the original French structure — rather than rearranging it into smooth English — your brain absorbs French grammar and syntax in context, tale after tale.