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[...] Series 1 –  Fairy tales from Brazil Years and years ago at the very beginning of time, when the world had just been [...]

[...] Series 11 –  Fairy tales from Brazil Once upon a time the monkey was hungry. He wanted to make some porridge, but he did [...]

[...] Series 18 –  Fairy tales from Brazil In Brazil the beetles have such beautifully coloured, hard-shelled coats upon their [...]

[...] Series 17 –  Fairy tales from Brazil Once upon a time there was a little princess who lived in a magnificent royal [...]

[...] carried the letter very carefully in her little brown basket. It was a long distance to the royal palace where the king lived. The little white hen had never been so far from home in all her life. [...]

[...] the baby with joy, and though the intendant saw quite well that it must have come from the royal palace, he did not think it was his business to inquire further into the mystery. The following year [...]

[...] way as fast as she could to Vallone Grosso. When she arrived there she went straight to the Royal palace, and let the King be told she had come to cure the young Prince. The King commanded her to be [...]

[...] were to present arms, the people to cheer, and he was to be conducted in triumph to the royal palace. When the King’s daughter saw Jack my Hedgehog, she was a good deal startled, for he [...]

[...] path. As soon as the eldest son was out of sight of the house he opened his melon. A beautiful maiden sprang out of the melon saying, “Give me water or give me milk.” There was no water nearby [...]

[...] Page 15 – Aesop’s fables The Lion in Love A Lion once fell in love with a beautiful maiden and proposed marriage to her parents. The old people did not know what to say. They did not [...]

[...] , but no one knew who she was. Prince Fickle, too, was quite dazzled by the charms of the beautiful maiden, and never guessed that she had once been his own ladylove. He never left her side all night, [...]

[...] as she could and arrived just in time for the dances. Everybody at the festa noticed the beautiful maiden in her gown the colour of the fields and all their flowers. The prince fell madly in love [...]

Page 7 – Aesop’s fables The Fox and the Grapes One hot summer’s day a Fox was strolling through an orchard till he came to a bunch of Grapes j [...]

Page 8 – Aesop’s fables The Ant and the Grasshopper In a field one summer’s day a Grasshopper was hopping about, chirping and singing to its h [...]

Page 9 – Aesop’s fables The Fisher A Fisher once took his bagpipes to the bank of a river, and played upon them with the hope of making the fish [...]

Page 10 – Aesop’s fables The Tortoise and the Birds A Tortoise desired to change its place of residence, so he asked an Eagle to carry him to hi [...]

Series 2 – Andersen’s fairy tales There was once a poor Prince, who had a kingdom. His kingdom was very small, but still quite large enough to ma [...]

Series 3 – Andersen’s fairy tales There was once a Prince who wished to marry a Princess; but then she must be a real Princess. He travelled all [...]

Series 10 – Andersen’s fairy tales In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house–it was almost three hundred years old, for that might [...]

Series 11 – Andersen’s fairy tales Really, the largest green leaf in this country is a dock-leaf; if one holds it before one, it is like a whole [...]

[...] hastily opened the baskets, and found in each a lovely baby-girl, about the same age as the little Princess for whom she sorrowed so deeply. At first the sight of them renewed her grief; but presently [...]

[...] ; but as soon as all the others were seated at table, after bestowing their gifts upon the little Princess, she stole into the Palace, disguised as a black cat, and hid herself under the cradle until [...]

[...] Series 17 –  Fairy tales from Brazil Once upon a time there was a little princess who lived in a magnificent royal palace. All around the palace there was a beautiful garden [...]

[...] them. He was tired of travelling alone. He saw the seven sisters all start out with their yam sticks in hand. He followed at a distance, taking care not to be seen. He saw them stop by the nests [...]

[...] we will camp, for sweet and clear is the water there.” The wives, taking their goolays and yam sticks, went out as he told them. Having gone far, and dug out many yams and frogs, they were tired [...]

[...] comebees, and armed with combos, with which to chop out the bees’ nests and opossums, and with yam sticks to dig up yams. When the women had gone, Gooloo gathered the children round her and fed them [...]

[...] been walking, and I suppose you are ravenous?’ ‘Indeed no, madam,’ answered the poor Princess, ‘I am too sad to be hungry.’ ‘Oh, well! if you will promise to go on being sad, [...]

[...] worse, he seemed to be in a very bad temper, and came blustering and raging at the poor Princess. ‘I tell you what it is, madam,’ said he: ‘whether you love this whipper-snapper [...]

[...] her words, and ordered her to quit the court, and never again to appear before him. The poor Princess went sadly up to her room and began to cry, but when she was reminded of her father’s [...]

[...] Grumedan. Frivola, who had stood by, stiff with displeasure at the sight of the lovely Princess, now stepped forward, and with much pretended concern proposed to carry off Potentilla [...]

[...] of joy: for he had recognised her, not as the Celandine whom he had slighted, but as the lovely Princess whom he had sought vainly for so long. The fact was that the Fairy of the Beech-Woods, [...]

[...] sea and land, and of these adventures he himself was always the hero. Sometimes he rescued a lovely Princess from some terrible danger, again he earned a kingdom by some brave deed, until at last he [...]