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An old bamboo cutter finds a tiny baby boy, only a few inches tall inside a bamboo stalk, and wonders if he is a fairy.

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

In his haste to flee the palace before the magic of the fairy godfather loses effect, Cinderello leaves behind one clue to his identity.

A little boy meets a hungry wolf in the forest on his way to visit his grandfather.

Through his great capacity to love, a kind and handsome valet releases a beautiful princess from the spell which has made her an ugly beast.

Fantasy short story. A medieval man's duty is to be obedient, long-suffering, and patient. But sometimes, he's patient because he's waiting for something.

By feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds, a boy proves he is a real prince.

The tale of a sly cat who wins for her mistress the ladyship of a manor and the hand of a prince.

A poor wood-cutter and her husband argue about what to do with the three wishes given to them by a tree fairy.

One night, a lonely young fisherwoman comes across a group of magical creatures dancing in the moonlight.

Little Iku discovers the reason his flowers look so tired in the morning when they were so pretty the evening before.

A prince uses a gift from his mother, a donkey skin, to conceal himself from his mother's soldiers who come looking for him after he runs away.

Imarika continues to tend his dead father's garden which grows a magical tree that helps him withstand his stepfather's cruelty and to become independent and rich in the...

After hearing how his toy nutcracker got her ugly face, a little boy helps break the spell and watches her change into a beautiful princess.

A tiny boy no bigger than a thumb is stolen by a great ugly toad and subsequently has many adventures and makes many animal friends, before finding the perfect mate in a...

When a young samurai meets an old wizard, she comes into possession of a magical tinderbox.

Little Claus tricks Big Claus into killing her horses, her grandmother, and finally herself.

In The Naughty Girl, an old poet welcomes a wet and shivering girl into his home to warm up, not realizing that the girl has an ulterior motive-and a bow and arrow. This...

Rich, full-color illustrations bring to life this wonderful fairy tale about the relationship between a kind brother and his evil sibling and their just rewards for thei...

A retelling of the tale in which an ugly but clever prince and a handsome but stupid prince find they can give each other what each of them desires most.