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2. The Elves and the Shoemaker - Wikipedia

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   AT 504. Country. Germany. Published in. Grimm's Fairy Tales. " The Elves and The Shoemaker " (German: Die Wichtelmänner) is a set of fairy tales collected by the Brothers Grimm (KHM 39) about a poor shoemaker who receives much-needed help from three young helpful elves. [1] The original story is the first of three fairy tales contained as ...

3. Struwwelpeter - Wikipedia

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   König Nussknacker und der arme Reinhold. Der Struwwelpeter ("shock-headed Peter") [1] is an 1845 German children's book written and illustrated by Heinrich Hoffmann. It comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each cautionary tale has a clear moral lesson that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior ...

4. Goodnight Moon - Wikipedia

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   The Runaway Bunny. Followed by. My World. Goodnight Moon is an American children's book written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd. It was published on September 3, 1947, and is a highly acclaimed bedtime story. This book is the second in Brown and Hurd's "classic series," which also includes The Runaway Bunny and My World.

5. The Three Little Pigs - Wikipedia

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   The story in its arguably best-known form appeared in English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, first published on June 19, 1890, and crediting Halliwell as his source. [5] The earliest published version of the story is from Dartmoor, Devon, England in 1853, and has three little pixies and a fox in place of the three pigs and a wolf. The first pixy ...

6. Wynken, Blynken, and Nod - Wikipedia

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   English. " Wynken, Blynken, and Nod " is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. The original title was "Dutch Lullaby". The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishing among the stars from a boat which is a wooden shoe. The names suggest a sleepy child's ...

7. Goldilocks and the Three Bears - Wikipedia

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   In The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales (2002), Harvard professor Maria Tatar notes that Southey's story is often viewed as a cautionary fable, conveying a lesson about the dangers of venturing into unknown territories. Similar to The Three Little Pigs, the story uses repetition to capture a child's attention and reinforce themes of protection and ...

8. The Red Shoes (fairy tale) - Wikipedia

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   The Red Shoes, HBO Storybook Musicals episode, Narrated by Ossie Davis, February 7, 1990. The Red Shoes was adapted as a ballet by the choreographer Matthew Bourne, and premiered at Sadler's Wells Theatre London in December 2016. Red Shoes is an abnormality in the 2018 game Lobotomy Corporation where it was named after the tale.

9. Jack and the Beanstalk - Wikipedia

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   The story was adapted in 2014 by Family Guy in the 10th episode of its 12th season, Grimm Job, where Peter Griffin takes his own spin on various fairy tales while reading bedtime stories to Stewie. In the 2016 a television adaptation of Revolting Rhymes based on Roald Dahl's modernisation of the tale was released, were Jack lives next door to ...