Brown, Kay

Retells the tale of the beautiful princess whose lips were red as blood, skin was white as snow, and hair was black as ebony.

The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service, he pipes away their children, too.

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

Fourteen-year-old Willy, slow in school and ridiculed by other boys in his Brooklyn neighborhood, faces another dull summer with his mother until tutoring from an older girl and other special experiences help him develop a sense of self-confidence.

Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the 13th fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for 100 years.

In Geppetto's hand a piece of wood that talks becomes a living, mischievous marionette and eventually, after many trials and errors, a real boy.

A retelling of the tale of two children, lost in the woods, who came upon a gingerbread house inhabited by a wicked witch.