The bird kingdom is missing a king, so they decide to hold a contest. The one to fly the highest will be the winner. The contest starts. The eagle is about to win. And all of a sudden a wren flies out...

A man is sent to jail for beating his wife. After a while he is released and he promises to never repeat his faults. He says that a couple has to share every joy and sorrow and stay together no matter...

Do you think there is a difference between poor and rich men in Heaven? Do they get treated differently? Can you imagine that the peasant in our story witnesses how a rich man gets admitted to Heaven...

You are about to witness a race between a hedgehog and a hare. Who will you bet on? Even though the winner seems to be obvious, things can change in the very last minute. Who will have the last laugh?...

A rich family takes care of one little poor boy. You would expect the boy to lead happy and carefree life. However this is not how our story goes. The boy’s days are full of starvation and fights. He...

Can you imagine having a bear for a friend? Well the two sisters Snow-White and Rose-Red can. They were so pure-hearted that they could not imagine someone or something hurting them. They lived happily...

Some are born with a golden spoon in the mouth. Others are forced to lead difficult and unfair life full of miser and desperation. This time the heroine in our story is not a princess who lives in a big...

The fish face a serious issue. They do not have a king. So they decide to hold a contest where the fastest fish is to be proclaimed as the new king. The herring is leading. The sole is right behind. Who...

Have you heard the saying "a little stone may upset a large cart"? You know, our story follows the same proverb. A man was on his way home from a fair when someone told him that one of his horse's shoes...

The poor boy Hans and his mother get kidnapped by evil robbers. Their future does not seem so bright, but little Hans is determined to fight back and get himself and his mother out. Further in life Hans...

What would you choose if you got lost in the woods: continue wondering around with a unknown huntsman or rather take shelter in robbers’ den? What if the robbers find you and want to harm you? Do you...

Once lived two sisters. The one became rich but had no children. The other one was a poor widow with five small children. They were so hungry and so desperate that the poor mother was forced to seek help...

There was a time when a young princess named Maid Maleen fell in a love with a prince. However the princess’s father would not approve of the boy. The king decided to lock his daughter and her maid in...

A mother had two children. They lived in poverty but they were there for each other every day. The mother would send her youngest child to the forest to fetch wood. One day the poor little girl was so...

Can you imagine finding a golden key in a cold, dark winter night? What will you do with it? Where can it lead you to? Do you know that a small boy has already found a key like that and is about to open...

When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella"...

THERE was, many years ago, a gentleman who had a charming lady for his wife. They had one daughter only, who was very dutiful to her parents. But while she was still very young, her mamma died, to the...

A certain man had a donkey, which had carried the corn-sacks to the mill indefatigably for many a long year. But his strength was going, and he was growing more and more unfit for work. Then his master...

ONCE upon a time, a poor nobleman married a very rich, but proud and bad-tempered lady. She was his second wife, and had two grown-up daughters, of exactly her own disposition. The nobleman, too, had...

There was once a tailor who had three sons and one goat. And the goat, as she nourished them all with her milk, was obliged to have good food, and so she was led every day down to the willows by the water-side...

A mother had twelve sons but she was so poor that she could not find a way to take care of them all. Her oldest one was Peter. He headed out in the world seeking bread for his family. But he got lost...

Can you imagine what a glass mountain could look like? Now what if we told you that the princess in our story began climbing the steep slopes, but she suddenly slipped and disappeared. How you may ask?...

One mother put her child to sleep and decided to go to the woods and fetch some strawberries. She found a magically beautiful bush with strawberries and just as she was going to gather some, she saw a...

People who have less give more. Have you heard this saying? Do you believe in it? Well let me give you an example. A poor orphaned girl wandered around the countryside, giving away what she had left to...

If there was someone to trick the Devil himself, you would not expect it to be a hard-working peasant, right? Well Brothers Grimm surprise us yet again with a folktale about an unreasonable agreement...

"The Sea-Hare" is an unusual tale about a proud princess who spends most of her time in a magical tower with twelve windows. Unlike other stories about princesses who fall in love with a prince’s appearance,...

What if someone tempts you to do something you know is forbidden and then you get in trouble? Who is responsible? You or the person who has allured you? "The Crumbs on the Table" is one of those tales...

Do you want to hear a story about one hard-working woman? Her name is Lean Lisa and she works from early morning to late evening. She is restless and is trying to figure out a way to buy a cow. But this...

What if someone tells you that he will shave your hair and beard and will give you coal in return? It does not sound appealing, right? But what if you still agree and shortly after you see that the coal...

The king’s daughter gets sick and the only way for her to feel better is by eating apples. Now you would not be so surprised if we told you that the king announced that whoever brings apples to the princess,...