Brown, Carron

An illustrated retelling, accompanied by brief histories, of two well-known tales, including "Hansel and Gretel, " in which a lost brother and sister meet a wicked witch in the forest and, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin, " the Pied Piper exacts a terrible revenge on the greedy citizens of Hamelin.

A retelling, accompanied by a brief history, of the two well-known tales in the first of which a young girl's great capacity to love overcomes the spell that turned a prince into a beast and, in the second, a young boy climbs a beanstalk where he outwits an ogre and makes his fortune.

A retelling, accompanied by a brief history, of the two well-known tales in the first of which a poor girl attends the palace ball with the help of a fairy godmother and, in the second, a poor boy discovers a magic lamp whose genie changes his life.