fairy tales

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The steadfast tin soldier

1992
After being accidentally launched on a dangerous and terrible voyage, a one-legged soldier finds his way back to his true love--a paper dancing girl.

The ugly duckling

1965
An ugly duckling is scorned by everyone because he is different, but after a lonely winter he discovers he has grown into a beautiful swan.

The princess and the pea

1978
A young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.

Rapunzel, the one with all the hair

2006
Rapunzel and Prince Benjamin are both trapped, one in a tower by an evil witch, the other by his royal duties, but when their paths cross, aided by friends and a little luck, conditions change for them both.
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Beauty and the beast

2006
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.
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Moss gown

1987
After failing to flatter her father as much as her two evil sisters do, Candace is banished from his plantation and only after much time and meeting her Prince Charming, is her father able to appreciate her love.
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The three silly girls Grubb

2002
In this revision of the familiar tale "The Three Billy Goats Gruff," three sisters manage to outwit Ugly-Boy Bobby who spends his time under the bridge they must cross on their way to school.
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Baba Yaga and Vasilisa the Brave

1994
A retelling of the old Russian fairy tale in which beautiful Vasilisa uses the help of her doll to escape from the clutches of the witch Baba Yaga, who sets in motion the events that lead to the marriage of Vasilisa to the tzar.
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The seven ravens

1994
A little girl travels to the end of the world to find her seven brothers who have been turned into ravens and free them from their enchantment.
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