The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.

After the king of the leprechauns bestows on him the Ring of Truth, Patrick O'Kelley no longer expects to win a blarney contest.

After her grandmother dies, Katya finds herself in a kingdom where the Tsarvitch has been turned into living ice and she uses the magic nesting dolls her babushka had given her to try to break the curse.

The king of the storks grants the drummer three wishes for carrying him across the river.

Because she is not invited to the christening of the princess, theKing's sister casts a spell depriving the child of gravity and the ability toweep tears.

Brief stories featuring such creatures as flower fairies, elves, dwarves, and river sprites.

After Red Riding Hood and her grandmother have their close call with the Big Bad Wolf, Red Riding Hood sets out to find new activities and friends for her grandmother, and the nice woodcutter who came to their rescue seems like the perfect prospective companion.

A mother saves her seven children from Heckedy Peg, a witch who has changed them into different kinds of food.

Presents a re-telling of the well-known fairy tale of a young girl feels a pea through twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds and proves she is a real princess.

When a Sorcerer tells him that he has been transformed from another sort of being, the Bee-man sets out to discover what he was in his earlier incarnation.