All Stories – Page 37 – Indian Folk Tales

Grimm's Fairy Tales Ages 9-12

A fairy's death curse is softened to a hundred years of sleep, and a prince reaches the briar-bound castle when that time ends.

Grimm's Fairy Tales Ages 9-12

A cat and a mouse store a pot of fat for winter, but the cat keeps inventing christenings to sneak off and eat it, one lick at a time.

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Fleeing a forbidden marriage, a princess hides in a thousand-fur mantle as Cat-skin—until three ball gowns and soup-trinkets give her away.

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Clever Elsie frets over a cellar pickaxe, naps in the corn under a net of bells, and runs away no longer sure she is herself.

Grimm's Fairy Tales Ages 9-12

A merry cook tastes two roast fowls bite by bite while her master's guest is late, then talks her way out of trouble with a clever lie.

Grimm's Fairy Tales

Clever Hans keeps following his mother's advice for the gift he got last time, which goes badly wrong with each new visit to Gretel.

Grimm's Fairy Tales Ages 9-12

A poor peasant named Crabb buys an ABC book, hangs out a sign calling himself Doctor Knowall, and must find a rich lord's stolen money.

Grimm's Fairy Tales Ages 9-12

An old fox fakes death to test his wife; only a nine-tailed suitor is accepted—until he leaps from under the bench with a cudgel.

Grimm's Fairy Tales Ages 6-8

Catherine's helpful disasters spill the ale, trade gold for dishes, and grease bruised trees—until a carried door falls on the thieves.

Grimm's Fairy Tales

A bird-snatched child and the forester's daughter flee a cook's kettle, shifting into rose, church, and pond until the witch drowns.

Grimm's Fairy Tales Ages 6-8

Hans trades his silver wages for a horse, cow, pig, goose, and grindstones—then thanks Heaven when the heavy stones sink in the river.

Grimm's Fairy Tales Ages 9-12

Abandoned in the forest, Hansel and Gretel find a house of bread and sugar—and Gretel turns the witch's own oven against her.