Category: Fairy Tale

The young king was sitting alone in his beautiful room in the palace. He was only sixteen years old; he was wild-eyed like some animal of the forest. The servants of the old king had found him in the forest.…

Mary had a little lamb. She loved it very much. In the day time she kept it tied to a tree in the fields and in the evening she went to lead it back home. One evening, however, she found…

Once upon a time there lived a poor Baron who had two step-daughters and a daughter of his own.The step-daughters were ugly, spoilt and bad-tempered. One was very thin, the other was very fat, and they both had great big…

Once upon a time, there lived a woodman and his wife. They were very poor, and they lived in a cottage on the edge of a forest. Every day, the woodman would set out early in the morning to chop…

A little jackal and a camel lived for a long time in the same village. The jackal was always full of fun and always ready to play tricks on his friends. One summer morning the jackal could find very few…

Once there was a man who had three sons. The youngest was called Blockhead, and the other two always made fun of him and mocked him. The oldest son went one day into the forest to cut wood. Before he…

On Christmas Marie and her brothers had a fine big Christmas tree. It shone with a glory of light from its myriad little candles. All the full green branches were draped with strings of popcorn and hung with honey-cakes, sugar-plums,…

Once there lived in Hungary, a very poor old woman who had nothing at all in the world except one Little Small Rooster. This Rooster was scratching the ground one day, looking for something to eat, when suddenly what should…