fairy tales

The adventures of various nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters, including Goldilocks, Jack and Jill, the frog prince, Cinderella, and the gingerbread man, are retold in backward sequence with each tale interrelated to the other.

A clever, cheerful, hard-working farmer's son wins the hand of a Chinese princess by outwitting her father the Emperor, who treasures his daughter more than all the rice in China.

A fairy grants a small, skinny prince a change in appearance and the chance to go to the Palace Disco.

In her haste to flee the palace before the fairy godmother's magic loses effect, Cinderella leaves behind a glass slipper.

Jack climbs the great beanstalk that grows from the bean he bought and confronts a giant at the top.

Though her father seeks to protect her from all unpleasant things, a young princess is intrigued by the voice of the wind that tells her of worlds beyond the palace walls.

After showing kindness to a fairy in disguise, Claire receives the gift of flowers and jewels that fall from her mouth when she speaks, but her bitter sister suffers a less pleasant fate.

A retelling, in rebus format, of the traditional tale in which three clever billy goats outwit a big, ugly troll.

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.

An ugly duckling spends an unhappy year ostracized by the other animals before he grows into a beautiful swan.