Thirty-three fairy tales from the folklore of Norway, Ireland, Wales, India, Portugal, Brittany, and Scandinavia.

In this version of the classic folktale, an Argentine wide-mouthed frog sets out through the rain forest to brag about his fly-eating abilities and encounters a toco toucan, a coati, a capybara, and a jaguar. Includes a note about the South American rain forest animals featured in the story.

A mouse begs a lion for mercy and, after he is set free, promises that he will help the lion some day in return.

Retells how the wolf's plan to get into the sheep pen backfires when the farmer butchers him for a lamb dinner.

Recounts the famous tale of the race between the persevering turtle and the boastful rabbit.

A retelling of the fable in which a young boy's false cries for help cause him problems when he is really in need of assistance.

Rip Van Winkle is a short story by the American author Washington Irving first published in 1819. Set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War in a village at the foot of New York's Catskill Mountains, it follows a Dutch-American villager named Rip Van Winkle who falls asleep in the Catskill Mountains and wakes up 20 years later, having missed the American Revolution. Irving wrote it while living in Birmingham, England...

A maiden's daydreams of what she will buy with the money she expects to earn for a pail of milk she carries on her head earn her a valuable lesson, instead.

A hungry wolf disguises himself as a sheep in order to steal and eat other members of the flock. He soon becomes the largest and fattest 'sheep,' which the shepherd then catches and cooks for his own dinner.

Artemis Fowl is going straight-as soon as he pulls off the most brilliant criminal feat of his career . . . but his plan goes awry, leaving his loyal bodyguard, Butler, mortally injured. Artemis's only hope of saving his friend is to employ fairy magic; so once again he must contact his old rival, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. It is going to take a miracle to save Butler, and Artemis's luck may have just run out. . .