Series:

World of Fairy Tales

5 total works

Cover of The Little Mermaid and the Princess and the Pea: Two Tales and Their Histories
A retelling, accompanied by a brief history, of the two well-known tales in the first of which a young mermaid trades her tail for human legs and, in the second, a young girl proves that she is a real princess.

Cover of Sleeping Beauty and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: Two Tales and Their Histories
A retelling, accompanied by a brief history, of the two well-known tales in the first of which a fairy's curse causes a young princess to sleep for 100 years and, in the second, a beautiful princess finds refuge from her wicked stepmother in the forest home of the seven dwarves.

Cover of The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood: Two Tales and Their Histories
A retelling, accompanied by a brief history, of the two well-known tales in the first of which three pig brothers leave home to seek their fortunes and encounter a big bad wolf and, in the second, a little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while going to visit to her grandmother.

Cover of Beauty and the Beast and Jack and the Beanstalk: Two Tales and Their Histories
A retelling, accompanied by a brief history, of the two well-known tales in the first of which a young girl's great capacity to love overcomes the spell that turned a prince into a beast and, in the second, a young boy climbs a beanstalk where he outwits an ogre and makes his fortune.

Cover of Hansel and Gretel and the Pied Piper of Hamelin: Two Tales and Their Histories
A retelling, accompanied by a brief history, of the two well-known tales in the first of which a lost brother and sister meet a wicked witch in the forest and, in the second, the Pied Piper exacts a terrible revenge on the greedy citizens of Hamelin.