When a terrible witch vows to eat her for supper, a little girl escapes with the help of a mirror and comb given to her by the witch's cat and dog.

    On her way to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother, Elisabeth encounters a sly wolf.Book Details: Format: Library Binding Publication Date: 6/1/1982 Pages: 32 Reading Level: Age 5 and Up

    In RED AS BLOOD, she displays her soaring imagination at its most fantastically mischievous. Not for nothing was the title story named as a Nebula nominee. Not for nothing was the author of THE BIRTHGRAVE & THE STORM LORD called by New York's Village Voice, "Goddess-Empress of the Hot Read."Here are the world-famous tales of such as the Brothers Grimm as they might have been retold by the Sisters Grimmer! Fairy tales for children? Not on your life!Contents:Paid Piper (1981)Red as Blood (1979)Thorns (1972)When the Clock Strikes (1980)The Golden Rope (1983)The Princess and Her Future (1983)Wolfland (1980)Black as Ink (1983)Beauty (1983)

    Here, collected in one volume, are tales and legends that range from the misty dawn of Gaelic history and the triumph of St Patrick to the Ireland of the present day - tales as beautiful, mystical, and enchanting as the ancient land itself.

    Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

    But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion, little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives - their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convincingly shows, fairy tales have always been a powerful discourse, capable of being used to shape or destabilize attitudes and behavior within culture.For this new edition, the author has revised the work throughout and added a new introduction bringing this classic title up to date.

    Drawn from sources as diverse as Morocco and India, Spain and Eastern Europe, Babylon and Egypt, the stories are characterized by their infusion of traditional Jewish characters with the archetypal forms found in all fairy tales, or by their treatment of Jewish religious themes. The book combines the playfulness of fairy tales with the author's depth of knowledge of the historical origins of the tales. Throughout one can find the quests and riddles of the traditional fairy tale along with the divine intervention that characterizes the Jewish fairy tale.

    Presents "The Elves and the Shoemaker, " "The Donkey Cabbages, " "The Witch and the Children, " "The Bold Little Tailor, " "Rapunzel, " "Jack and the Beanstalk, " and "The Wee Man of the Moors."

    Includes the well-known tales as well as less familiar ones such as "The Gardener and the Squire," "The Story of a Mother," "In a Thousand Years Time," and "The Shadow."

    

    Illustrated with photos from a performance by the American Ballet Theatre.

    Originally released by Golden Press, many of the Book Club series were reissued by Reader's Digest with slightly modified covers.

    Four tales concerning a greedy giant and a clever stranger, a grouchy king and his mouse jester, a war between cabbages and cucumbers, and a bird who wishes to be more colorful.

    

    

    of Das Märchen? 1795)30 • Fair-Haired Eckbert • novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Der blonde Eckbert 1797)47 • A Wondrous Oriental Fairy Tale of a Naked Saint • short fiction by Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder (trans. of Ein wunderbares morgenländisches Märchen von einem nackten Heiligen? 1797)52 • Klingsohr's Tale • short fiction by Novalis (trans. of Klingsohrs Märchen 1802)77 • Hyacinth and Rosebud • short story by Novalis (trans. of Hyazinth und Rosenblüthe? 1802)81 • The Runenberg • novelette by Ludwig Tieck (trans. of Der Runenberg 1804)102 • The New Melusina • novelette by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. of Die neue Melusine 1816)121 • The History of Krakatuk • (1833) • short story by E. T. A. Hoffmann (trans. of Das Märchen von der harten Nuß 1816)133 • The Marble Statue • short fiction by Joseph von Eichendorff (trans. of Das Marmorbild 1819) [as by Joseph, Freiherr von Eichendorff]172 • The Tale of the Myrtle-Girl • short fiction by Clemens Brentano (trans. of Das Märchen von dem Myrtenfräulein 1826)184 • The Cold Heart • [Das kalte Herz / The Cold Heart] • novella by Wilhelm Hauff (trans. of Das kalte Herz 1827)221 • The Story of Beautiful Lau • short fiction by Eduard Mörike? (trans. of Die Historie von der schönen Lau 1853)241 • Hinzelmeier: A Thoughtful Story • novelette by Theodor Storm (trans. of Hinzelmeier: Eine nachdenkliche Geschichte 1850)264 • Bulemann's House • novelette by Theodor Storm (trans. of Bulemanns Haus 1864)282 • The Tale of the 672nd Night • short story by Hugo von Hofmannsthal (trans. of Das Märchen der 672. Nacht? 1895)298 • Jackals and Arabs • (1948) • short story by Franz Kafka (trans. of Schakale und Araber 1917)303 • Biographical Notes (German Literary Fairy Tales) • essay by Frank G. Ryder

    Creeping downstairs from bed one night, Eloise finds her parents having a grand party with wild animals who are dressed in fancy clothes and walking on their hind legs.

    To keep a princess as his bride, a poor boy must bring the king three golden hairs from the head of the devil.

    A rich farmer who tries to trick his neighbor's daughter into marrying him finds the unwilling girl can match him trick for trick.

    A troubador engages in a series of tests to win the hand of a princess, but as time passes, he realizes there is a prize more precious than the cold-hearted princess.

    Dorothy returns to the Emerald City of Oz and finds all the buildings in ruins and her old friends turned into statues.