Henry Carter Hull

A freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of pursuers until he meets a clever fox.

"The Light Princess" is George MacDonald's 1864 fairy tale inspired by "Sleeping Beauty". It is the story of a young girl, the daughter of the King and Queen, who at her christening is cursed to have no gravity by the uninvited Princess Makemnoit, sister to the King, and a spiteful bitter woman. As a result of the curse, the princess is in constant danger of being carried away by the wind and grows up never taking anything seriously. The only time...

A beautiful and beloved princess, cursed by the one fairy who was not invited to her christening, pricks her finger on her sixteenth birthday and falls asleep for one hundred years.

"This comprehensive collection of Italian tales in English encourages a revisitation of the fairy-tale canon in light of some of the most fascinating material that has often been excluded from it. In the United States, we tend to associate fairy tales with children and are most familiar with the tales of the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Anderson, and Disney. But the first literary fairy tales appeared in Renaissance Italy, and long before the Grimms...

Two rascally weavers sell a vain emperor an invisible suit of clothes.

Buttercup loves Westley, but when he is captured by pirates, she is chosen by the evil Prince to be his bride, beginning a series of fantastic efforts to free her.

Retells the classic fairy tale in which a sea princess longs to be human so she can be with the prince she loves, and includes a picture dictionary and other resources for readers.

A retelling of the fairy tale in which a young woman is forced to live with a beast in return for her father's freedom.

Relates the adventures of Aladdin, Princess Jasmine, and the genie of the lamp in faraway Arabia.

Each time Bartholomew Cubbins attempts to obey the king's order to take off his hat, he finds there is another one on his head.