Folk & fairy tale easy readers

An ugly duckling is excluded by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.

Retelling of Aesop's fable about a tortoise whose slow but sure pace is rewarded with victory over a fast but boastful hare.

A retelling of the classic fairy tale in which three little pigs leave home to try their luck in the world, but they must outwit a hungry wolf.

A retelling of the fairy tale in which three billy goats outsmart a nasty troll.

A retelling of the classic fairy tale in which a hungry traveler uses a stone as a soup starter and demonstrates the benefits of sharing.

A retelling of a folktale about a tricky spider who does not want to share his food.

By feeling a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty feather beds, a girl proves that she is a real princess.

Despite being neglected by the emperor for a jewel-studded bird, the little nightingale revives the dying ruler with its beautiful song.

A humorous retelling of a Cuban folktale in which a cockroach interviews her suitors in order to decide whom to marry.

A retelling of the classic story in which the little red hen finds that while none of her lazy friends willing to help her plant, harvest, or grind wheat into flour, all of them are eager to eat the bread she makesfrom it.