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

The fisherman's greedy wife is never satisfied with the wishes granted her by an enchanted fish.

When a poor girl receives a magic porridge pot, she is delighted - she and her mother need never be hungry again. But, one day, the pot cooks just a little too much porridge!

Four aging animals--a donkey, a dog, a cat, and a rooster--set out to seek their fortunes as musicians in Bremen, but along the way they stumble into a fateful encounter with a gang of robbers.

A little girl meets a hungry wolf in the forest while on her way to visit her grandmother. Includes a note about the history of the tale.

A retelling of the Grimm fairy tale in which a beautiful girl with long golden hair is imprisoned in a lonely tower by a witch.

Riding a rooster and playing magical music on his fiddle, a young man, who is half hedgehog, half human, wins the hand of a beautiful princess.

"On her way to deliver a basket of food to her sick grandmother, Elisabeth encounters a sly wolf."--

Retells the classic German version of Snow White, together with three similar tales--Marigo of the Forty Dragons from Albania, The unnatural mother and the girl with a star on her forehead from Mozambique, and The magic needle from Turkey.