The Three Little Pigs
7 min read ages 4 and up
Trickster fairy tales
34 tales
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
15 min read ages 7 and up
Little Red Riding Hood
5 min read ages 4 and up
Snow White
11 min read ages 7 and up
Rumpelstiltskin
4 min read ages 6 and up
Hansel and Gretel
10 min read ages 5 and up
Puss in Boots
6 min read ages 4 and up
Stone Soup
9 min read ages 4 and up
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
15 min read ages 8 and up
The Emperor’s New Clothes
9 min read ages 5 and up
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
15 min read ages 6 and up
Odysseus and the Cyclops
14 min read ages 7 and up
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
9 min read ages 5 and up
The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats
4 min read ages 4 and up
Kolobok
4 min read ages 3 and up
The Wawel Dragon
3 min read ages 5 and up
The Brave Little Tailor
12 min read ages 5 and up
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
15 min read ages 7 and up
Hans in Luck
7 min read ages 4 and up
King Thrushbeard
9 min read ages 5 and up
Cat and Mouse in Partnership
6 min read ages 6 and up
The Devoted Friend
15 min read ages 7 and up
The Hare and the Hedgehog
7 min read ages 5 and up
The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck
8 min read ages 4 and up
The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter
15 min read ages 6 and up
The Three Spinners
5 min read ages 5 and up
The Swineherd
9 min read ages 5 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 Fox and the Crow
1 min read ages 4 and up
The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
2 min read ages 5 and up
The Fox and the Goat
2 min read ages 4 and up
The Fox and the Stork
1 min read ages 4 and up
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
2 min read ages 4 and up
Who fools whom
In The Wolf and the Seven Little Goats the trickster is the wolf. He eats chalk to soften his voice and gets a miller to whiten his paw, and the kids open the door. Their mother then tricks him back with a belly full of stones.
Stone Soup turns trickery into something warmer. A tramp talks a stingy woman into adding flour, beef, potatoes, barley and milk to a pot with a stone in it, and she ends up thanking him for the recipe and giving him a silver coin.
In The Fox and the Crow the fox praises the crow’s feathers and wonders aloud about her voice, and when she caws, down falls the cheese. As he snatches it up, the fox tells her she has a voice and lacks only wits.
The Brave Little Tailor beats a giant by squeezing soft cheese instead of a stone and throwing a bird instead of a rock. Later he drops stones on two sleeping giants until they fight each other, and then the king sends him after a unicorn.