Cinderella
9 min read ages 6 and up
Princess stories
Princess stories from the Brothers Grimm, Perrault and Andersen: Cinderella, Rapunzel, Snow White, The Princess and the Pea, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses.
The older tellings often put their princesses to a test. One feels a pea through twenty mattresses and is believed because of it; another makes a careless promise to a frog and her father holds her to it. These retellings leave that as it stands.
The collection is also wider than the name suggests: in Puss in Boots and The Brave Little Tailor, the princess is the reward at the end of someone else’s adventure. Some of these tales suit a four-year-old who came for the dress and the castle, others a ten-year-old ready for something longer and darker.
Each shows an age range and a reading time. Where a version closer to the old source exists, it has its own page, labeled Original.
Tales in this collection
32 tales
Rapunzel
5 min read ages 6 and up
Sleeping Beauty
5 min read ages 4 and up
Snow White
11 min read ages 7 and up
The Golden Goose
10 min read ages 5 and up
Puss in Boots
6 min read ages 4 and up
Beauty and the Beast
16 min read ages 6 and up
The Princess and the Pea
3 min read ages 4 and up
The Frog Princess
11 min read ages 5 and up
The Little Mermaid
16 min read ages 6 and up
Donkey Skin
12 min read ages 6 and up
The Frog Prince
5 min read ages 4 and up
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
9 min read ages 5 and up
The Six Swans
6 min read ages 6 and up
Snow-White and Rose-Red
14 min read ages 5 and up
Tatterhood
9 min read ages 5 and up
Urashima Taro
13 min read ages 6 and up
The Wild Swans
16 min read ages 7 and up
The White Cat
15 min read ages 6 and up
The Brave Little Tailor
12 min read ages 5 and up
Iron Hans
11 min read ages 6 and up
Hans My Hedgehog
7 min read ages 6 and up
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
15 min read ages 7 and up
Toads and Diamonds
5 min read ages 5 and up
The Queen Bee
5 min read ages 5 and up
The Golden Bird
10 min read ages 6 and up
King Thrushbeard
9 min read ages 5 and up
The Tinderbox
9 min read ages 6 and up
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
15 min read ages 6 and up
The Swineherd
9 min read ages 5 and up
The Fisherman and His Soul
15 min read ages 9 and up
The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
12 min read ages 7 and up