Robin Hood
14 min read ages 7 and up
Fairy tales about courage
20 tales
The Story of Saint Nicholas
8 min read ages 7 and up
Jack and the Beanstalk
12 min read ages 5 and up
The Three Billy Goats Gruff
3 min read ages 4 and up
Hansel and Gretel
10 min read ages 5 and up
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
15 min read ages 8 and up
Baba Yaga
7 min read ages 6 and up
The Snow Queen
16 min read ages 6 and up
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
15 min read ages 6 and up
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
16 min read ages 7 and up
The Golem of Prague
10 min read ages 6 and up
Tatterhood
9 min read ages 5 and up
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
6 min read ages 6 and up
The Wild Swans
16 min read ages 7 and up
Vasilisa the Beautiful
10 min read ages 7 and up
Iron Hans
11 min read ages 6 and up
Hop-o’-My-Thumb
12 min read ages 6 and up
Momotaro, the Peach Boy
15 min read ages 6 and up
The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs
9 min read ages 6 and up
The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was
12 min read ages 7 and up
Where the courage lies
In Baba Yaga a girl sent to the witch’s hut keeps her head. She feeds the dogs rolls, gives the cat bacon, and runs with a towel and a comb that turn into a river and a forest behind her. She is terrified, and does just what her aunt told her.
The luck-child in The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs tells the king he is not afraid of the devil and walks all the way to hell. Yet it is the devil’s grandmother who hides him as an ant, so he does not manage it alone.
In The Wild Swans, Elisa picks stinging nettles in the churchyard, past a circle of hags at the graves, and weaves shirts from them to free her eleven brothers. She may not say a word until the work is done, not even on the cart that takes her to be burned.
Tatterhood rides a goat and fights with a wooden spoon. When a witch swaps her sister’s head for a calf’s, she sails with her sister alone to the witches’ land, leaps the goat through a window, snatches the head back and beats off the whole swarm.