In "Rumpelstiltskin" a miller's careless boast that his clever daughter can "spin gold from straw" is forced by the king to make good on this claim. A little man arrives to help the miller's daughter in exchange for her firstborn child. When the daughter, who by now is the queen, gives birth to a child, the little man comes to collect. He agrees to release the queen from her promise if she can learn the imp's name. According to researchers at Durham...

On her way to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother, Elisabeth encounters a sly wolf.

A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest on her way to visit her grandmother.

Retells the tale of the beautiful girl imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.

A retelling of the fairy tale in which a young girl saves a bear from a dwarf's wicked spell.

A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

A poor woodcutter's children, lost in the forest, come upon a house made of bread, cakes, and candy, occupied by a wicked witch who likes to have children for dinner.

Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the wicked fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.

A retelling of the Grimm tale about the prince who, as a punishment for his parents' greed, was shaped like a donkey.

A retelling of the Grimm tale in which an old donkey, dog, cat, and rooster, no longer wanted by their masters, set out for Bremen to become musicians.