Silver penny stories

Two abandoned children come upon a gingerbread cottage inhabited by a cruel witch who wants to eat them.

A tired and hungry little girl helps herself to the belongings of three bears in the woods.

As payment for retrieving the princess's ball, the frog exacts a promise which the princess is reluctant to fulfill.

Retells the fable of a frustrated fox that, after many tries to reach a high bunch of grapes, decides they must be sour anyway.

Two tricksters convince the emperor they are making him beautiful new clothes, invisible to fools, but during a royal procession in which he first wears them, a child calls out that the emperor has nothing on.

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

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

Through her great capacity to love, a kind and beautiful maid releases a handsome prince from the spell which has made him an ugly beast.

A retelling of the classic story of the boy who climbs a beanstalk and outwits a giant.