Littledale, Freya

An eighteenth-century idler who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakens to a much-changed world.

A little mermaid falls in love with a handsome prince and sacrifices a great deal in hopes of marrying him.

To win a bride and a kingdom, a soldier endeavors to discover why the dancing shoes of the king's twelve daughters are worn to pieces every morning.

Retold from the Norse Tale: The Husband Who Was to Mind the House. A farmer who always complains to his wife soon changes his tune after spending a day as a housewife.

A king who wishes for the golden touch is faced with its unfortunate consequences.

The North Wind's magical gifts to Peter, recompense for blowing away the flour needed to feed him and his poor mother, mysteriously lose their magic before Peter gets them home.

Retells the classic fairy tale of a beautiful princess who pricks her finger on a spindle and sleeps for one hundred years.

A beautiful princess whose proud and vain stepmother is trying to kill her takes refuge in the cottage of seven dwarfs.

Because each of the three princes sees the plum tree at a different season, he forms a different impression of what it looks like.