An illustrated collection of fifty-two traditional tales collected by the Grimm brothers.

A poor shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night.

"There was once an extraordinary girl who was as beautiful as she was brave. She knew how to read and write and sew. She loved to ride horses and shoot her bow and arrows. But it was the love for her family and her father that made her into a great soldier."--Page 4 of cover. Presents a retelling of the Chinese folk song in which a young woman disguises herself as a man in order to fight in the army in the place of her father, who is too old to go...

Read It Yourself With Ladybird is a series of classic, traditional tales, written in a simple way to give children a confident and successful start to reading. Although mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, Cinderella meets her prince with the help of her fairy godmother.

Beninese storyteller Mama brings together favorite myths from the tropics.

Two young sisters celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, admire their mooncakes decorated with a picture of a lady in the moon, and listen to their Ah-ma tell the ancient tale of how the holiday began.

A freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of animals until he meets a clever fox.

The youngest of a merchant's three sons proves that he is not as foolish as he was thought to be when he trades a sackful of onions for a fortune in diamonds.

In this retelling of a Shona folktale from Zimbabwe, a girl promises a crocodile he can come to a party in exchange for a favor, but since crocodiles aren't allowed in the village, she doesn't expect she'll have to keep the promise.