fairy tales

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King of the Cats

a ghost story
1980
As the gravedigger tells his wife how a band of cats marched into the cemetery to mourn their dead king, their own cat, Old Tom, listens with a strange intensity.

The princess and the frog

adapted from The Frog King and Iron Heinrich by the Brothers Grimm
1989
As payment for retrieving the princess's ball, the frog exacts a promise which the princess is reluctant to fulfill.

Princess Furball

1989
A princess in a coat of a thousand furs hides her identity from a king who falls in love with her.

Snow White & Rose Red

1997
An illustrated version of the classic tale about two kind sisters' experiences with an enchanted bear and an ungrateful gnome.

Rapunzel

1989
A beautiful girl with extraordinarily long golden hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.

Rumpelstiltskin

1985
A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.

Puss in Boots

1976
A poor young man gains a fortune and meets a beautiful princess when his cat outwits an evil giant.

Henny Penny

1968
Henny Penny and her friends are on the way to tell the king the sky is falling when they are outwitted by the fox.

The gingerbread boy

1975
The Gingerbread Boy eludes the hungry grasp of everyone he meets until he happens upon a fox more clever than he.

The elves and the shoemaker

1984
When the poor shoemaker and his wife discover the two naked little elves who have helped them become successful, they sew fine outfits for them.

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