La Llorona
12 min read ages 10 and up
Fairy tales about love
22 tales
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
15 min read ages 7 and up
Rapunzel
5 min read ages 6 and up
Sleeping Beauty
5 min read ages 4 and up
Beauty and the Beast
16 min read ages 6 and up
The Little Mermaid
16 min read ages 6 and up
Bambi
15 min read ages 8 and up
Donkey Skin
12 min read ages 6 and up
The Velveteen Rabbit
13 min read ages 4 and up
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
16 min read ages 7 and up
The Happy Prince
15 min read ages 6 and up
Urashima Taro
13 min read ages 6 and up
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
6 min read ages 6 and up
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
15 min read ages 7 and up
The White Cat
15 min read ages 6 and up
The Little Match Girl
3 min read ages 6 and up
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
15 min read ages 7 and up
The Nightingale and the Rose
8 min read ages 7 and up
King Thrushbeard
9 min read ages 5 and up
Jorinda and Joringel
6 min read ages 6 and up
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
15 min read ages 6 and up
The Fisherman and His Soul
15 min read ages 9 and up
Many kinds of love
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is a love story between a girl and the old couple who raised her. Princess Kaguya turns down five suitors and an emperor, and when her people come from the moon, she leaves her robe for her foster father.
In Sleeping Beauty the prince arrives just as the hundred years run out and the thorns turn to flowers. When the whole castle wakes, the cook, whose hand has hung in the air for a hundred years, finally boxes the kitchen boy’s ear.
In Donkey Skin a prince falls ill with longing and asks for a cake baked by the girl in the donkey’s hide. Her emerald ring is in it, and only her finger fits it. Early on the widowed king wants to marry his adopted daughter, so read that part first.
In The Happy Prince a swallow stays behind for a statue. He carries off its ruby, its sapphire eyes and its gold leaf for the poor, and dies of cold at its feet, and at that moment the statue’s leaden heart snaps in two.