The Gingerbread Man
4 min read ages 3 and up
Magic fairy tales
58 tales
Cinderella
9 min read ages 6 and up
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
Jack and the Beanstalk
12 min read ages 5 and up
Rumpelstiltskin
4 min read ages 6 and up
Hansel and Gretel
10 min read ages 5 and up
The Golden Goose
10 min read ages 5 and up
Beauty and the Beast
16 min read ages 6 and up
Pinocchio
15 min read ages 6 and up
Bluebeard
10 min read ages 8 and up
Rip Van Winkle
15 min read ages 6 and up
Thumbelina
14 min read ages 5 and up
Alice in Wonderland
16 min read ages 6 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 Red Shoes
8 min read ages 8 and up
The Frog Princess
11 min read ages 5 and up
The Little Mermaid
16 min read ages 6 and up
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
5 min read ages 7 and up
The Snow Queen
16 min read ages 6 and up
The Elves and the Shoemaker
4 min read ages 3 and up
Donkey Skin
12 min read ages 6 and up
The Velveteen Rabbit
13 min read ages 4 and up
The Frog Prince
5 min read ages 4 and up
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
9 min read ages 5 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
The Six Swans
6 min read ages 6 and up
The Juniper Tree
11 min read ages 8 and up
Snow-White and Rose-Red
14 min read ages 5 and up
The Fisherman and His Wife
10 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
Brother and Sister
8 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
Vasilisa the Beautiful
10 min read ages 7 and up
Iron Hans
11 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
Frau Holle
7 min read ages 4 and up
Hop-o’-My-Thumb
12 min read ages 6 and up
The Queen Bee
5 min read ages 5 and up
The Seven Ravens
6 min read ages 6 and up
The Magic Porridge Pot
2 min read ages 3 and up
The Golden Bird
10 min read ages 6 and up
The Tinderbox
9 min read ages 6 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
Star Money
3 min read ages 4 and up
The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs
9 min read ages 6 and up
The Wishing Table
11 min read ages 5 and up
The Fisherman and the Jinni
10 min read ages 6 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
Spells, gifts and wishes
The magic in these tales rarely comes free. In The Tinderbox a soldier spends a witch’s gold fast, and when it runs out, no friend of his climbs the stairs to his attic. Then he strikes a spark, and a dog with eyes as big as teacups appears.
Two little men sew shoes every night in The Elves and the Shoemaker, until the shoemaker and his wife make them clothes in return. They put them on, dance over the chairs and benches and out of the door, and never come back.
In The Twelve Dancing Princesses a soldier in a cloak that makes him invisible follows the sisters down through avenues of silver, gold and diamond trees. Each time a twig cracks, the youngest says something is wrong, and nobody listens.
Urashima Taro ends in sorrow. A kind fisherman spends what feels like three days in the Dragon King’s palace, comes home three hundred years later, opens the box he promised never to open and grows old on the spot.