Experience the wonderful world of Oz through short stories featuring characters like the Hungry Tiger, Dorothy and Toto, and the Wizard of Oz himself. Written in 1913 and published separately in an effort to revitalize the Oz series and create interest among young readers, these short stories feature the classic Oz characters in simple, charming settings that are perfect for young fans of the Oz books.
Snow White is a story about a beautiful little princess whose mother, the Queen, dies and is soon replaced by another Queen when the King remarries. Snow White's stepmother is a treacherous and vain woman.
She is so vain that each morning, she asked her magic mirror who is the fairest of all. The mirror answers each time. 'You are the fairest of all.' As Snow White grows up, she becomes a beautiful young lady. One day when the stepmother questions the mirror, the mirror answers that Snow White is the fairest of all.
The stepmother becomes jealous and orders a huntsman to take Snow White deep into the dark woods and leave her there.
The classic fairy tale, Little Red Riding Hood, is a tale about a girl that is named after the red hooded cape she wears. One day her mother asks her to take a basket of food to her sickly grandmother—who lives in the woods. The mother orders Little Red Riding Hood not to wander off the path that leads to grandma’s house.
This is a story about a young, poor boy named Jack that lives with his widowed mother and a dairy cow, on a cottage farm. The cow's milk is their only source of income. When the cow stops giving milk, Jack's mother tells him to take her to the market to be sold. On the way, Jack meets a bean dealer who offers magic beans in exchange for the cow--and Jack makes the trade. There are consequences to Jack’s decision…
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A puppet maker named Geppetto carved a boy puppet and named him Pinocchio. Pinocchio runs away and has a series of adventures. Every time he tells a lie his nose grows longer. He eventually falls into the hands of Professor Fire-Eater who sees the value of a puppet without strings. Pinocchio just wants to be a real boy and eventually his dream comes true and he is reunited with Geppetto.
Ali Baba marries a poor woman and settles into the trade of a woodcutter. One day, Ali Baba is at work collecting and cutting firewood in the forest, when he happens to overhear a group of 40 thieves visiting their stored treasure. Their treasure is in a cave, the mouth of which is sealed by a huge rock.
The 'Three Little Pigs' is a classic fairy tale about three pigs that are sent out into the world by their mother to seek out their fortune. Each pig builds a house—one is made of hay, another is made of twigs and the third one made of bricks. Their house is soon attacked by a wolf that wants to eat them. What are the consequences of each little pig’s decision to use different types of building materials to build their house?
When Billy Bones, an old seaman came to live with young Jim Hawkins and his mother in their Inn, Jim had no idea he was to get into one great big, dangerous adventure.
One morning, Billy Bones was found dead in his room. Jim and his mother opened his trunk and found an old map. It looked like a treasure map. Jim took the map to their friends, Dr. Livesey and town squire, Trelawney. They deduced that the map was of the island where a deceased pirate, Captain Flint, buried his treasure. Squire Trelawney proposed they buy a ship and go after the treasure-Dr. Livesey as ship's doctor and Jim as cabin boy.
So, the next day, the three buy a ship, hire a crew, and set sail to an unknown island, looking for treasure-What happens next?
This is the story of an improvised boy named Aladdin that lived in a small town in China. He is recruited by a sorcerer who claims that he is Aladdin’s uncle. The sorcerer convinces Aladdin to go with him to the mountains where they will be able to retrieve a magic lamp inside a cave. Aladdin finds the magical lamp but the sorcerer attempts to double-cross Aladdin by trapping him in the cave. Aladdin inadvertently rubs the lamp and a genie appears who releases him from the cave. Still carrying the lamp, Aladdin returns to his mother.
This is the story about a bear family—Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear. They live in a small cottage in the woods. At dinnertime, their meal, a bowl of porridge is too hot, so they decide to talk a walk in the woods until the porridge cools. A little girl, named Goldilocks, comes upon the house where she enters and finds the three bowls of porridge. She decides to eat some of the porridge…but there are consequences to her decision…
Before he becomes an outlaw, Robin Hood is the rightful earl of Huntingdon. The times are corrupt, however, and Robin's father is dispossessed of his estates. Young Robin is driven into Sherwood Forest, where he protests social injustice by organizing a band of outlaws to prey on the rich to give to the poor.
