Cinderella
9 min read ages 6 and up
Transformation fairy tales
32 tales
Puss in Boots
6 min read ages 4 and up
The Ugly Duckling
12 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
Rip Van Winkle
15 min read ages 6 and up
Alice in Wonderland
16 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 Snow Queen
16 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 Nutcracker and the Mouse King
16 min read ages 7 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
The Selfish Giant
9 min read ages 5 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
Iron Hans
11 min read ages 6 and up
Hans My Hedgehog
7 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 Golden Bird
10 min read ages 6 and up
King Thrushbeard
9 min read ages 5 and up
Jorinda and Joringel
6 min read ages 6 and up
The Young King
14 min read ages 8 and up
When the shape changes
Hans My Hedgehog is born half hedgehog and half boy and rides off on a rooster with his bagpipes. He sheds his skin only on his wedding night, when it is burned in the fire, and comes out black as coal before a doctor makes him handsome.
In The Frog Prince the change comes in a surprising way: the princess throws the frog against the wall in a temper, and he falls as a king’s son with beautiful, kind eyes. There is no kiss anywhere in this telling.
In Jorinda and Joringel the spell falls in the middle of a song. Jorinda turns into a nightingale, and Joringel, frozen to the spot, can only watch the owl circle her before the old woman carries her off in a basket.
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King begins on Christmas Eve. Maria nurses a wooden nutcracker with a wounded chin and later learns he is young Drosselmeier under a curse, freed because she said she would not turn from him for being ugly.