A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves that she is a real princess.

Because she is not invited to the christening of the princess, theKing's sister casts a spell depriving the child of gravity and the ability toweep tears.

Rebuffed by the princess after retrieving her golden ball, a noble frog sets out to find a more suitable mate.

Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the thirteenth fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.

A little girl meets a wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.

A poor young man gains a fortune and meets a beautiful princess when his cat outwits an evil giant.

A flower-spouting princess, gobbling prince, emerald-winged fairy, foolish giants, fearsome ogres, and talking frog and fish are just a few of the captivating characters found in this anthology of beloved stories from 29 places around the world, from the Arctic to Africa to Asia to Australia to Europe to the Americas. Meet a sailor with an ogre wife in a story from China, a young girl who outsmarts giants in a tale from Fiji, a clever rooster seeking...

The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brief, tragic life.

Fairy tales gathered from the folklore of Russia, Germany, Italy, France, China, Scotland, and England.

Examines the life of Snow White's stepmother, the Wicked Queen, to find out just what it is that makes her so evil that she would want to cut out her teenage step-daughter's heart and have it delivered in a locked keepsake box.