Retells the orchestral fairy tale of the boy who, ignoring his grandfather's warning, proceeds to capture a wolf with the help of his friend the bird.

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals in the barnyard before he grows into a beautiful swan.

This collection of over 200 folk and fairy tales from all over the world encompasses all cultures. Featuring selections lovingly selected from the personal favorites of folklorists and writer, this major anthology includes stories from West and East Europe, Asia, the Americas, the Caribbean, and Africa.

A prince searching for the Water of Life to cure his dying father finds an enchanted castle, a lovely princess, and treachery from his older brothers.

Although mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella meets her prince with the help of her fairy godmother.

Tells the story of Tomten, a little troll who talks to all the animals that live at a lonely, old farmhouse. On a bitterly cold winter night at a lonely farm in the woods, when all the people are asleep, the Tomten comes out from the hayloft and talks to the animals in Tomten language which they can understand of summer that will come again.

Retells the tale of the girl who sets out to find her seven brothers and free them from enchantment.

After showing kindness to a strange old woman, Shiraz receives the gift of beauty but her lazy and unkind stepsister, Nargues, suffers a less pleasant fate in this adaptation of the Grimm's fairy tale, Mother Hulda, reset in Tehran, Iran.

Retells eight of Andersen's best-known fairy tales including "The Little Mermaid" and "The Steadfast Tin Soldier."

In this humorous retelling of Andrew Lang's "Puddocky," a young maiden who has been transformed into a toad by a jealous fairy relies on her newly honed magical abilities to charm a prince into marriage.