fairy tales

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Lily and the wooden bowl

1994
A young girl who wears a wooden bowl over her face to hide her beauty overcomes a variety of trials and eventually finds love, riches, and happiness.

Cinder Edna

1994
Cinderella and Cinder Edna, who live next door to each other, each with a cruel stepmother and stepsisters, have different approaches to life. Although both end up with the princes of their dreams, one is a great deal happier than the other.

The principal's new clothes

1989
In this version of the Andersen tale the vain principal of P.S. 88 is persuaded by two tailors that they will make him an amazing, one-of-a-kind, suit that will be visible only to intelligent people who are good at their jobs.

Cinderella Penguin, or, The little glass flipper

1992
A retelling of the classic Cinderella story with penguins as the characters.

The painter and the wild swans =

[Gaka to yasei no hakuch?]
1986
Transfixed by the beauty of a passing flock of white swans, a Japanese painter finds that he cannot work until he sees them again.

The end

2007
When a princess makes some lemonade, she starts a chain of events involving a fire-breathing dragon, one hundred rabbits, a hungry giant, and a handsome knight.

The problem child

2007
Sabina and Daphne Grimm enter the hideout of the Scarlet Hand in order to rescue their parents who had been kidnapped a year before, but their attempts are thwarted by the most famous fairy tale character in the world.

An undone fairy tale

2005
A story about a selfish, pie-loving king takes numerous silly detours when its illustrator cannot keep up with its reader.

One potato, two potato

2006
A very poor, humble couple live so simple a life they share everything, until the husband discovers a pot with magical powers buried under the very last potato in the garden.

Can you see what I see? Once upon a time

2006
Readers are asked to find things in illustrations of scenes from famous fairy tales.

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