Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1:
The Frog Prince
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4
CHAPTER 2:
Sleeping Beauty
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13
CHAPTER 3:
Snow White
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21
CHAPTER 4:
Hansel and Gretel
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37
CHAPTER 5:
Rumpelstiltskin
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54
CHAPTER 6:
Little Red Riding Hood
. . . . . . . . .
62
CHAPTER 7:
Rapunzel
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
71
CHAPTER 8:
Cinderella
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79
CHAPTER 9:
The Shoemaker and the Elves
. . .
96
CHAPTER 10:
Tom Thumb
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100
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The Frog Prince
Originally
Named
The Frog King
In olden times when wishing still worked,
there lived a king
whose daughters were all
beautiful. But the youngest was so beautiful
the sun itself was astonished whenever it shone
on her face.
Close by the king’s
castle lay a great dark
forest. Under an old lime tree in the forest was
a well. When the day was very warm, the king’s
youngest child went
and sat down by the side
of the cool fountain. And when she was bored,
she took a golden ball and threw it up high and
caught it. This ball was her favorite plaything.
On
one occasion, the princess’s golden ball
did not fall into the little hand she was holding
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