Nine Classics: Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, The Wold and Seven Kids, Little Red Riding Hood, The Magic Table, Puss in Boots, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, The Musicians of Bremen

An abridged version of the story of Marie Stahlbaum, who helps break the spell on her toy nutcracker and watches him change into a handsome prince.

A retelling of a folktale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is kept imprisoned in a lonely tower by a sorceress. Includes a note on the origins of the story.

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

Caldecott honor book: 1987.

Retells the tale of the little girl who meets a wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.

"When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in...