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

Because she is not invited to the christening of the princess, the King's sister casts a spell depriving the child of gravity and the ability to weep tears.

This beloved volume collects the world's most famous fairy tales, children's classics, and bedtime stories. The enchanting stories of childhood every girl and boy-and their parents-cherish are collected in this first volume of Andrew Lang's renowned Fairy Books. Originally published in 1889, this treasure trove of timeless tales of action and adventure, enchanted forests and fantastic creatures, and monsters and magic has thrilled readers all over...

A miner's son is entrusted with the weighty task of saving the king, the princess, and consequently the kingdom. He is directed in his efforts by a mysterious fairy queen who provides monstrous but gentle creatures to aid him.

A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.

210 traditional tales with accompanying explanatory and historical material.

A little sea princess, longing to be human, trades her mermaid's tail for legs, hoping to win the love of a prince and earn an immortal soul for herself.

Forty-nine whimsical and humorous tales introduce such characters as the Potato Face Blind Man, Henry Hagglyhoagly, the Green Rat, the Blue Wind Boy, and many others.

A prince disguises himself as a swineherd and learns the true character of the princess he desires.

Describes the adventures of a boy carried away by the Snow Queen and the search of the young girl who followed him.