- Genre:children's fiction
- Sub-genre:Fairy Tales & Folklore / Anthologies
- Age Range (years):3 - 5
- Language:English
- Pages:200
- Hardcover ISBN:9781098338619
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About the Book:
Once upon a time, at bedtime, my mother, father, and all four grandparents read to me fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen. I have added Colonel Stoopnagle's spoonerisms and a tale of the four little wolves to the stories to be shared with my grandchildren twice upon a time.
Part 1: Fairy Tales by the Brothers Grimm
1. Sleeping Beauty
2. Rapunzel
3. The Drummer
4. Cinderella
5. Hansel and Gretel
6. Cat and Mouse in Partnership
7. The Fox and the Horse
8. The Rose
9. The Frog King or Iron Henry
10. Rumpelstiltskin
11. The Girl Without Hands
12. The Old Man and His Grandson
13. The Sparrow and His Four Children
14. The Boots of Buffalo-Leather
15. Puss in Boots
16. Sharing Joy and Sorrow
17. The Seven Ravens
18. The Fisherman and His Wife
19. Snow-White and Rose-Red
20. Little Red Riding Hood
Part 2: Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
1. The Emperor's New Suit
2. Thumbelina
3. The Ugly Duckling
4. The Little Mermaid
5. The Red Shoes
6. The Princess and the Pea
7. The Nightingale
8. The Tinder-Box
9. The Brave Tin Soldier
10. The Most Incredible Thing
11. The Little Match-Seller
12. The Jumper
13. The Snowdrop
14. Children's Prattle
15. The Loveliest Rose in the World
Part 3: Fairy Tales by Colonel Stoopnagle
1. Little Hood Redding Ride
2. Rindercella
3. The Three Little Pigs
4. The Pee Little Thrigs
5. The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
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Sleeping Beauty
by the Brothers Grimm
In times past there lived a king and queen, who said to each other every day of their lives, "Would that we had a child!" and yet they had none. But it happened once that when the queen was bathing, there came a frog out of the water, and he squatted on the ground, and said to her: "Thy wish shall be fulfilled; before a year has gone by, thou shalt bring a daughter into the world." And as the frog foretold, so it happened; and the queen bore a daughter so beautiful that the king could not contain himself for joy, and he ordained a great feast. Not only did he bid to it his relations, friends, and acquaintances, but also the wise women, that they might be kind and favorable to the child. There were thirteen of them in his kingdom, but as he had only provided twelve golden plates for them to eat from, one of them had to be left out. In came the uninvited thirteenth, burning to revenge herself, and without greeting or respect, she cried with a loud voice: "In the fifteenth year of her age the princess shall prick herself with a spindle and shall fall down dead." When the twelfth came forward, and though she could not do away with the evil prophecy, yet she could soften it, so she said: "The princess shall not die, but fall into a deep sleep for a hundred years."
Little Red Riding Hood
A fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm
Once upon a time there was a sweet little girl. Everyone who saw her liked her, but most of all her grandmother, who did not know what to give the child next. Once she gave her a little cap made of red velvet. Because it suited her so well, and she wanted to wear it all the time, she came to be known as Little Red Riding Hood. One day her mother said to her: "Come Little Red Riding Hood. Here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine. Take them to your grandmother. The grandmother lived out in the woods, a half hour from the village. When Little Red Riding Hood entered the woods a wolf came up to her. She did not know what a wicked animal he was, and was not afraid of him. "Good day to you, Little Red Riding Hood." - "Thank you, wolf." - "Where are you going so early, Little Red Riding Hood?" - "To grandmother's."
Rindercella
by Colonel Stoopnagle
Once apon a time, in a coreign fountry, there lived a very geautiful birl; her name was Rindercella. Now, Rindercella lived with her mugly other and her two sad bisters. And in this same coreign fountry, there was a very prandsom hince. And this prandsom hince was going to have a bancy fall. And he'd invited people from riles amound, especially the pich reople. Rindercella's mugly other and her two sad blisters went out to buy some drancy fesses to wear to this bancy fall, but Rindercella could not go because all she had to wear were some old rirty dags. Finally, the night of the bancy fall arrived and Rindercella couldn't go. So she just cat down and scried. She was a kitten there a scrien, when all at once there appeard before her, her gairy fodmother. And he touched her with his wagic mand ... and there appeared before her, a cig boach and hix white sorces to take her to the bancy fall. But now she said to Rindercella, "Rindercella, you must be home before nidmight, or I'll purn you into a tumpkin!"
The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig
This twisted fairy tale features three anthropomorphic wolves who build four houses using different types of materials: bricks, concrete, steel, and flowers. A big bad pig tries to destroy the houses made of bricks, concrete, and steel by huffing and puffing, but fails. The big bad pig finds a way to destroy those houses by using a sledgehammer for the bricks, a pneumatic drill for the concrete, and dynamite for the steel. However, when the pig tries to blow down the flower house, he smells the fragrant flowers, and the pig realizes what he has done. The pig then becomes a good pig, and he and the wolves live happily ever after as friends as the book ends.
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