At the end of an enchanted evening a glass slipper is lost, but true love is found. Young and beautiful, Cinderella is forced to work as a servant, and as the day for the royal ball approaches, she fears that she will not be allowed to attend. But with the help of a fairy, a single magical night brings her to the attention of a prince and changes her life forever. Charles Perrault's "Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper," and the Brothers Grimm's...

The great Gitchee Manitou has sent Nanabush the Giant Hare to the new north country to give the first animals their names and special markings. But trickster that he is, Nanabush prefers to play silly games. When Ahmik the Giant Beaver lures Nanabush into a chase across the newly formed land and water, their game etches out a beautiful wonderland of islands and ponds and lakes. Readers young and old will enjoy the legend behind the creation of the...

The Big Friendly Giant is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and it's lucky for Sophie that he is. If she had been carried off by any of the other giants, she would have been breakfast. When Sophie hears that the giants are headed to England to steal some little children, she and the BFG decide they must stop them once and for all.

Hare turns his bad luck around by striking a clever deal with the rich and lazy bear down the road.

Retells the familiar tale in which one of three brother pigs survives a wolf's attacks by using his head and planning well.

A translation of the French fairy tale about the cat who with a sack and a pair of boots gained a fortune for his master.

Presents a retelling of a Cherokee folk tale, in which a giant dog steals a couple's cornmeal and uses it to create the entire Milky Way.

"This is the story of an enduring friendship between an Ojibwe girl and a Dakotah boy, and how their kindness towards one another brings healing to a tribe, and gives the beautiful land of Minnesota its name"--Provided by publisher.

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

When three hungry soldiers come to a town where all the food has been hidden, they set out to make soup of water and stones, and all the town enjoys a feast.