Presents Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales "The Little Mermaid," "The Tinder Box," "Great Claus and Little Claus," and "The Swineherd," unabridged.
Mowgli, left alone in the jungle as a toddler after his parents are run off by Shere Khan, a Bengal tiger, grows to adulthood with the help of kind animals, always knowing his own showdown with the tiger is yet to come.
When five brothers and sisters discover a Psammead, or sand-fairy, in the gravel pit near the country house where they are staying, they have no way of knowing all the adventures its wish-granting will bring them.