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A treasury of fables, fairy tales, and folk stories, retold to be read aloud and remembered.

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  • Aladdin and the Enchanted Lamp

    A poor boy finds a battered old lamp, and with the genie who dwells within it discovers that fortune won by wishing must still be held with wit.

  • Anansi and the Sky God

    The clever spider Anansi bargains with the Sky God for the world’s stories, and pays for them by outwitting creatures far larger than himself.

  • Beauty and the Beast

    A merchant’s daughter takes her father’s place in an enchanted castle, and learns to see past a fearsome form to the gentle heart beneath.

  • Cinderella

    Cinders and hardship cannot dim a kind heart, and one enchanted night at the ball changes everything for a girl who deserved far better.

  • Goldilocks and the Three Bears

    A curious girl wanders into a cottage in the woods and helps herself to what is not hers, until its three owners come home.

  • Hansel and Gretel

    Abandoned in the forest and lured by a house of sweets, two children must keep their wits about them to escape a witch’s oven.

  • Jack and the Beanstalk

    A handful of magic beans grows into a beanstalk to the clouds, where a bold boy tests his courage against a giant.

  • Little Red Riding Hood

    A girl sets off through the woods to her grandmother’s house, learning too late why she was warned not to stray from the path.

  • Puss in Boots

    A miller’s youngest son inherits nothing but a cat, and a very clever cat it proves to be, one who talks his master into a fortune.

  • Rapunzel

    A girl with hair like spun gold is shut away in a doorless tower, until a song drifting from her window brings hope climbing up.

  • Rumpelstiltskin

    A strange little man spins straw into gold to save a miller’s daughter, but the price he names is dearer than any treasure.

  • Sleeping Beauty

    A christening curse sends a princess and her whole court into a hundred-year sleep, waiting for the day the briars part.

  • Snow White

    A jealous queen’s mirror names another the fairest of all, and a gentle princess must flee to seven small friends in the wood.

  • The Ant and the Grasshopper

    A carefree grasshopper sings away the summer while the busy ants prepare for winter, and learns too late the value of looking ahead.

  • The Blue Jackal

    A jackal tumbles into a dyer’s vat and struts home a startling blue, mistaken for a king, until his own nature gives him away.

  • The Boy Who Cried Wolf

    A shepherd boy raises a false alarm once too often, and finds that a liar is not believed even when he speaks the truth.

  • The Crane Wife

    A poor man saves a wounded crane, and the mysterious wife who comes to him asks only that he never watch her at her weaving.

  • The Crow and the Pitcher

    A thirsty crow finds water beyond the reach of its beak, and proves that patience and cleverness can succeed where strength cannot.

  • The Elves and the Shoemaker

    A poor shoemaker wakes to find his work finished by unseen hands, and repays the secret helpers with a kindness of his own.

  • The Emperor’s New Clothes

    Two swindlers weave a suit of clothes said to be invisible to fools, and a whole court dares not admit it sees nothing at all.

  • The Fox and the Crow

    A crow with a prize of cheese meets a silver-tongued fox, and learns why flatterers are the least to be trusted.

  • The Fox and the Grapes

    Unable to reach a tempting bunch of grapes, a fox decides they were sour anyway, and so scorns what he cannot have.

  • The Frog Prince

    A princess’s careless promise to a frog by the well proves harder to escape than she thought, and stranger in its ending.

  • The Goose That Laid the Golden Eggs

    A humble goose lays an egg of gold each morning, until her owners’ greed drives them to seek all their fortune at once.

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