The Story of Peter Pan

Author: James M. Barrie
Length: 00:05:14
# of tracks: 1
Narrator: Katie Haigh
Production Year: 2015
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This classic adaptation of James Barrie’s play tells the story of Peter Pan, a mischievous little boy who can fly, and his adventures on the island of Neverland with Wendy Darling and her brothers, the fairy Tinker Bell, the Lost Boys, and the pirate Captain Hook.

The Red Shoes

Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Length: 00:14:37
# of tracks: 1
Narrator: Katie Haigh
Production Year: 2015
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A peasant girl named Karen is adopted by a rich old lady after her mother’s death and grows up vain and spoiled. Before her adoption, Karen had a rough pair of red shoes; now she has her adoptive mother buy her a pair of red shoes fit for a princess. After Karen repeatedly wears them to church, they begin to move by themselves, but she is able to get them off. One day, when her adoptive mother becomes ill, Karen goes to attend a party in her red shoes. A mysterious soldier appears and makes strange remarks about what beautiful dancing shoes Karen has. Soon after, Karen’s shoes begin to move by themselves again, but this time they can’t come off.

The Princess and the Pea

Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Length: 00:03:23
# of tracks: 1
Narrator: Katie Haigh
Production Year: 2015
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The story tells of a prince who wants to marry a princess, but is having difficulty finding a suitable wife. Something is always wrong with those he meets, and he cannot be certain they are real princesses. One stormy night a young woman drenched with rain seeks shelter in the prince’s castle. She claims to be a princess. But how can the prince ascertain she really is? This classic tale tells the story of how he put her to the test.

The Elves and the Shoe maker

Author: Brothers Grimm
Length: 00:04:41
# of tracks: 1
Narrator: Katie Haigh
Production Year: 2015
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A very ancient folk tale, often copied and translated, found in Grimm’s compilation of fairy tales. This is a moral tale about a poor shoemaker who receives unexpected help when he thinks he won’t be able to make it: elves come into his house and shoulder his work for him.

The Three Little Pigs

Author: Unknown
Length: 00:08:51
# of tracks: 1
Narrator: Katie Haigh
Production Year: 2015
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The Three Little Pigs is a very funny and famous folktale / fable / fairy tale featuring anthropomorphic pigs who build three houses of different materials. The story begins with the title characters being sent out into the world by their mother, to “seek out their fortune”. The first little pig builds a house of straw, but a wolf blows it down and eats him. The second pig builds a house of furze sticks, which the wolf also blows down and eats him. Each exchange between wolf and pig features ringing proverbial phrases, namely: “Little pig, little Pig, let me come in.” “No, no, not by the hair on my chinny chin chin.””Then I’ll huff, and I’ll puff, and I’ll blow your house in.” The third pig builds a house of bricks. This little pig is very smart, and the end is a big surprise for everyone…

The Little Match Seller

Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Length: 00:07:09
# of tracks: 1
Narrator: Katie Haigh
Production Year: 2015
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“The little match seller” or “The little match girl” is a very famous fairy folk tale, written by Hans-Christian Andersen. On a cold New Year’s Eve, a young, poor girl tries to sell matches in the street. She is already shivering from cold. She shelters in a nook and sits down. The girl lights the matches to warm herself. In their glow she sees several lovely visions, including a Christmas tree and a holiday feast. The girl looks skyward and sees a shooting star; she then remembers her grandmother saying that such a falling star means someone is dying and is going to Heaven. As she lights the next match, she sees a vision of her grandmother, the only person to have treated her with love and kindness. She strikes one match after another to keep the vision of her grandmother alive for as long as she can…

The Brave Tin Soldier

Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Length: 00:11:57
# of tracks: 1
Narrator: Katie Haigh
Production Year: 2015
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“The brave tin soldier” also called “The Steadfast Tin Soldier” is a literary fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen about a tin soldier’s love for a paper ballerina. On his birthday, a boy receives a set of 25 toy soldiers all cast from one old tin spoon and arrays them on a table top. One soldier stands on a single leg, as having been the last one cast there was not enough metal to make him whole. Nearby, the soldier spies a paper ballerina with a spangle on her sash. She too is standing on one leg and the soldier falls in love. That night, a goblin among the toys in the form of a Jack-in-the-box angrily warns the soldier to take his eyes off the ballerina, but the soldier ignores him. The next day, the soldier falls from a windowsill (presumably the work of the goblin) and lands in the street. Two boys find the soldier, place him in a paper boat, and set him sailing in the gutter…

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves

Author: Brothers Grimm
Length: 00:16:11
# of tracks: 1
Narrator: Katie Haigh
Production Year: 2015
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“Snow Drop and the Seven Dwarfs” also known as “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves”is a German fairy tale, written by Brothers Grimm, known across much of Europe and is today one of the most famous fairy tales worldwide. A queen gives birth to a baby daughter, a girl with skin as white as snow, lips as red as blood, and hair as black as ebony. She is named ‘Snow White’. Sadly, the Good Queen, Snow White’s mother, dies during childbirth. After a year has passed, Snow White’s father, the King, takes a new and second wife, who is very beautiful, but a wicked and vain woman. The new queen, Snow White’s evil stepmother, possesses a magic mirror, which she asks every morning, “Mirror mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?” The mirror always replies: “My Queen, you are the fairest one of all.” The Queen is always pleased with that, because the magic mirror never lies. But as Snow White grows up, she becomes more beautiful each day and even more beautiful than the Queen, and when the Queen asks her mirror, it tells her that Snow White is the fairest. This gives the queen a great shock. She becomes yellow and green with envy and from that hour on, her heart turns against Snow White, and she hates her more and more each day. Envy and pride, like ill weeds, grow in her heart taller every day, until she has no peace day or night. Eventually, the Queen orders a huntsman to take Snow White into the deepest woods to be taken…

Snow White and Rose Red

Author: Brothers Grimm
Length: 00:17:00
# of tracks: 1
Narrator: Katie Haigh
Production Year: 2015
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“Snow-White and Rose-Red” is a German fairy tale written by Brothers Grimm. Snow-White and Rose-Red are two little girls living with their mother, a poor widow, in a small cottage. They are very good little girls, they love each other dearly, and their mother is very fond of them. Dark-haired Rose-Red is outspoken and cheerful and loves to play outside. Fair-haired Snow-White is quiet and shy and prefers doing housework and reading. One winter night, there is a knock at the door. Rose Red opens the door to find a bear. At first, she is terrified, but the bear tells her not to be afraid. “I’m half frozen and I merely want to warm up a little at your place,” he says. They let the bear in, and he lies down in front of the fire. Snow-White and Rose-Red beat the snow off the bear, and they quickly become quite friendly with him. They play with the bear and roll him around playfully. They let the bear spend the night in front of the fire. In the morning, he leaves trotting out into the woods. The bear comes back every night for the rest of that winter and the family grows used to him. When summer comes, the bear tells them that he must go away for a while to guard his treasure from a wicked dwarf. During the summer, when the girls are walking through the forest, they find a dwarf whose beard is stuck in a tree. The girls rescue him by cutting his beard free, but the dwarf is ungrateful and yells at them for cutting his beautiful beard. The girls encounter the dwarf several times that summer, rescue him from some peril each time and the dwarf is ungrateful each time. Then one day, they meet the dwarf once again. This time, he is terrified because the bear is about to eat him…

Riquet with the Tuft

Author: Charles Perrault
Length: 00:17:16
# of tracks: 1
Narrator: Katie Haigh
Production Year: 2015
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“Riquet with the Tuft” (French: Riquet à la Houppe), also known as “Ricky of the Tuft”, is a very famous folktale / fable / fairy tale written by Charles Perrault. A fairy gives an ugly prince named Ricky the gift of conferring wit upon the one he loves the best. Prince Ricky of the Tuft comes to a kingdom with two princesses. The elder one is beautiful but unintelligent and the younger one is intelligent but ugly. The elder princess is saddened that her ugly but smart sister receives more attention than her. One day as the elder princess was going for a walk in the forest to ease her sorrow, she is approached by Ricky who had fallen in love with her after seeing portraits of her that circulated. Ricky asks how a person so beautiful as she can be so sad, to which she responds that she is sad because she is beautiful but lacks intelligence. Ricky then bestows the gift of intelligence on the elder princess for a promise of marriage. A year later, Ricky comes to marry her. She refuses on grounds that he cannot hold her to a promise made before she gained her wisdom. The princess then tells him that she was gifted at birth with the power to transform her lover into a beautiful person by the same fairy who helped him…