Portmanteau pictures will always be inconsistent and this sextet of stories from French animator Michel Ocelot is not only hampered by some underwhelming sections, but also by the clumsy linking device that sees a boy, a girl and an elderly man stage the enchanting fables in the latter's run-down theatre. Easily the most visually striking vignette is The Doe Girl and the Architect's Son, which relates how a medieval suitor outwits a sorcerer to win the heart of his beloved. The combination of the silhouette technique perfected in the 1920s by the great Lotte Reiniger with Ocelot's own genius for colourful exoticism works like a dream. The African saga Boy Tam-Tam and the Tibetan fairy tale The Boy Who Never Lied also have their moments of graphic magic. But the Gallic opener The Werewolf and the remaining tales have less innovative narratives and are more reminiscent of Aesop's Fables in their moralising. Yet, such is Ocelot's mastery of shadow craft, that this particular box of delights is always engaging.