The ‘Cinq pieces enfantines’ that make up Ravel’s ‘Mother Goose Suite’ illustrate moments from fairy tale narratives. Apart from the last (The Fairy Garden), each is subtitled with a line or two from the text of a story. Three of these are well known stories: Sleeping Beauty, Tom Thumb, and Beauty and the Beast (all from Perrault). The third, ‘Pagodes et Pagodines’ is based on a less familiar tale, ‘The Green Serpent’, by Mme d’Anglebert.