Now, when poor Snow White found herself alone in the big forest, she didn't know which way to turn, but she knew that she must run as far from the queen as she could go. There were so many strange noises in the forest--and the towering dark trees and their looming shadows looked fierce and ominous. She felt so frightened that she didn't know what to do, but she ran like the wind over sharp stones and through bramble bushes and across mountains. Sometimes...

A poor shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night.

A retelling of the Grimm tale in which an old donkey, dog, cat, and rooster, no longer wanted by their masters, set out for Bremen to become musicians.

Four aging animals--a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster--set out to seek their fortunes as musicians in Bremen, but along the way they stumble into a fateful encounter with a gang of robbers.

A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her grandmother. Includes a note about the history of the tale.

A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

A retelling of the German folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.

The poor old shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night.

Riding a rooster and playing magical music on his fiddle, a young man, who is half hedgehog, half human, wins the hand of a beautiful princess.

"Princess Poppy really doesn't want to marry Prince Humperdink. (He smells.) She's hoping a handsome prince will come and rescue her. Instead she ends up with a slimy frog--but might there be more to this frog than meets the eye?"--p. [4] of cover