"The prisoner of an evil witch, Rapunzel lives all alone in a tall, dark tower. If she ever escapes, the witch will put a terrible curse her. But is Rapunzel frightened? Oh no, not she!"--

A retelling, set in Africa, of the story of twelve princesses who dance secretly all night long and how their secret is eventually discovered.

A poor shoemaker becomes successful with the help of two elves who finish his shoes during the night.

More than 200 tales by the Brothers Grimm.

"When Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their Children's and Household Tales in 1812, followed by a second volume in 1815, they had no idea that such stories as "Rapunzel," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Cinderella" would become the most celebrated in the world. Yet few people today are familiar with the majority of tales from the two early volumes, since in the next four decades the Grimms would publish six other editions, each extensively revised in...

Enraged at not being invited to the princess' christening, the thirteenth fairy casts a spell that dooms the princess to sleep for one hundred years.

A retelling of the well-known tale in which two children lost in the woods find their way home despite an encounter with a wicked witch.

A sweet little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her grandmother.

The Pied Piper pipes the village free of rats, and when the villagers refuse to pay him for the service, he exacts a terrible revenge.

In this contemporary retelling of the fairy tale "Twelve Dancing Princesses," an African-American reverend in Harlem endeavors to discover why the shoes of his twelve sons are worn to pieces every morning.