The wares of the poor little match girl illuminate her cold world, bringing some beauty to her brief, tragic life.

The story tells all about young Marco, who leads a charmed life, starting off as nobody special and ending up king.

A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.

"Fairy tales for our times from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours. A poisoned apple and a monkey's paw with the power to change fate; a girl whose extraordinarily long hair causes catastrophe; a man with one human arm and one swan's wing; and a house deep in the forest, constructed of gumdrops and gingerbread, vanilla frosting and boiled sugar. In A Wild Swan and Other Tales, the people and the talismans of lands far, far away--the mythic...

The storyteller finds himself in Twilight Land at the Inn of the Sign of Mother Goose where well-known characters from fairyland are gathered and each one tells a story.

An illustrated treasury of favorite fairy tales, adapted for reading aloud to very young children, includes such classics as "Little Red Riding Hood," "The Ugly Duckling" and "The Frog Prince."

Retells the orchestral fairy tale in which a boy ignores his grandfather's warnings and captures a wolf with the help of a bird, a duck, and a cat.

Discusses different recipes with stories for each of them.