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Kind Beauty grows to love the beast at whose castle she is compelled to stay and through her love releases him from the spell which had turned him from a handsome prince into an ugly beast.

Contains tales and a few poems from Ireland, including legends of ghosts, fairies, witches, priests, and saints.

"The original version of Fatima the Spinner and the tent was published in 1979 in Tales of the Dervishes: Teaching-Stories of the Sufi Masters over the past thousand years by Idries Shah"--Title page verso.

Ten stories from the Tales of a "Thousand and One Nights," including the well-known ones of Aladdin and the lamp, Ali Baba and the forty thieves, and Sinbad the sailor.

Because she does not faithfully follow the instructions of Arif the Wise Man, the Queen of Hich-Hich gives birth to a half-boy, who grows up to be very clever and confronts a dragon in an effort to become whole.

A Sufi teaching tale from Afghanistan about an old woman who insists that an eagle must really be a pigeon.

A wicked fairy, enraged by not being invited to the princess's christening, casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep until she is awakened by her true love's kiss.

A retelling of the children's story in which a freshly baked gingerbread man escapes when he is taken out of the oven and eludes a number of pursuers until he meets a clever fox.

A tired and hungry little girl helps herself to the belongings of three bears in the woods.

A retelling of the classic fairy tale of how three little pigs outwitted a big, bad wolf.

Selection and adaptation of seventy-five Grimm's fairy tales, as translated by Jack Zipes, and newly illustrated by Shaun Tan.

A princess hides in the forest home of seven friendly dwarves when her stepmother's jealousy of her beauty grows deadly.

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

"... author Duncan Tonatiuh reimagines one of Mexico's ... legends.

Selections from the over 600 stories which, according to legend, Shaharazad told a mighty king as a way to save the lives of the girls of her land.