Stories
Classic tales, retold — read fully offline, with your progress and favorites saved on this device.
Cinderella
A kind girl, mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, gets one magical night at the royal ball — and one midnight deadline.
Hansel and Gretel
Two children abandoned in the forest find a house made of candy and bread — but its owner has a very different appetite.
The Frog Prince
A princess promises a talking frog anything he wants for retrieving her lost golden ball — never expecting him to actually collect on it.
Rumpelstiltskin
A miller's daughter is locked in a room and ordered to spin straw into gold — an impossible task, until a strange little man offers his help.
The Bremen Town Musicians
Four aging farm animals, each about to be discarded by their owners, band together to seek a new life as traveling musicians.
The Golden Goose
The youngest of three brothers, mocked for his kindness, shares his simple lunch with a strange old man in the forest — and gets a magical bird in return.
The Elves and the Shoemaker
A poor, honest shoemaker down to his last piece of leather wakes to find a pair of perfect shoes he never made himself.
The Fisherman and His Wife
A poor fisherman catches a magical talking fish who grants wishes — and his wife's demands grow bigger with every single one.
The Valiant Little Tailor
A small tailor kills seven flies in one swat and, thrilled with himself, sews a belt boasting 'Seven at One Blow' — and sets off to seek his fortune.
Mother Holle
Two stepsisters fall down the same magical well into the same strange world — but treat its elderly guardian very differently, and are rewarded accordingly.
Snow White
A jealous queen, told by her magic mirror that her stepdaughter has become fairer than her, sends a huntsman to solve the problem permanently.
Rapunzel
A girl with impossibly long hair is locked in a tower by a witch, with no door and no stairs — only her hair to reach the outside world.
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Twelve princesses wear out a fresh pair of dancing shoes every single night, and no one can figure out where they go — until a poor soldier takes up the challenge.
The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
A mother goat warns her seven kids never to open the door to the wolf — but the wolf is far more clever about disguises than they expect.
The Star Money
A poor orphan girl, with nothing left to her name but the clothes on her back, gives away every single thing she owns to those in greater need.
Little Red Riding Hood
A girl sent to deliver food to her sick grandmother meets a wolf on the forest path — who reaches the cottage first.
Sleeping Beauty
A princess, cursed at birth to prick her finger and fall into a hundred-year sleep, has her fate sealed despite every precaution her parents take.
The Six Swans
A princess must weave six shirts from starflowers and stay completely silent for six years to save her brothers, cursed into swans by a wicked stepmother.
King Thrushbeard
A proud princess mocks every suitor who comes to ask for her hand — until her own father teaches her a humbling lesson about her arrogance.
The Goose Girl
A princess traveling to marry a prince is betrayed by her own scheming maid, who steals her identity along the way.
Hans in Luck
A young man, paid for seven years of hard work with a heavy lump of gold, trades it away again and again for smaller, lighter things — each time feeling luckier than before.
The Three Feathers
A king sends his three sons in three different directions, each following where a blown feather lands, to find the finest carpet in the world.
The Water of Life
A dying king's only cure is a legendary water hidden far away, guarded by dangers that have already claimed his two eldest sons.
Iron Hans
A wild, iron-skinned man captured and caged by a king is freed by a young prince — beginning a friendship that will transform them both.
The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs
A poor boy born under a lucky star is fated to marry a princess, no matter how many times a jealous king tries to have him quietly disposed of.
Clever Gretel
A cook, unable to resist tasting the roast chicken she's preparing for her master's guest, invents an increasingly elaborate story to explain where it went.
The Fox and the Geese
A hungry fox surrounds a flock of geese and offers to let them choose their own order of execution — buying them just enough time to think.
The Bremen Musicians' Neighbor: The Traveling Cat
An old cat, no longer wanted for catching mice, sets out alone to find a new purpose — and discovers that starting over is never really starting from nothing.
The Juniper Tree's Song
A cruel stepmother tries to hide a terrible secret from her family — but a small songbird knows exactly what happened, and will not stay silent.
The Traveling Journeyman and the Three Wishes
A weary traveler is granted three wishes by a grateful spirit — and squanders the first two through nothing more than careless irritation.
The Nail and the Kingdom
A blacksmith who forgets to check a single small detail before a crucial battle learns exactly how much one overlooked nail can cost.
The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf
A vain, proud girl, unwilling to dirty her fine shoes crossing a muddy path, tries a shortcut that costs her far more than clean shoes.
The Poor Miller's Boy and the Cat
A dying miller leaves his mill to two elder sons and his cat to the youngest — who slowly discovers the cat is worth far more than the whole mill.
The Traveling Companions
A generous young man, giving away everything he owns to strangers in need, is joined by a mysterious companion who repays his kindness in the strangest way.
The Straw, the Coal, and the Bean
Three unlikely kitchen companions escape together — and must cross a stream where only careful cooperation can get them all safely to the other side.
The Fisherman and the Enchanted Flounder
A magic fish grants a fisherman's wife wish after wish — and each one granted only makes her want something even further out of reach.
Mother Holle's Well
Two stepsisters fall down the same magic well and land in the same strange world — but only one is willing to actually do the work she finds there.
The Golden Goose
A simpleton's small act of kindness earns him a goose with feathers so magical that half a village ends up stuck to it in a comic chain.
Hans and His Lump of Gold
A young man heading home with a lump of gold trades it away, and trades again, and again — each swap feeling like an upgrade, until he has nothing left at all.
The Table, the Donkey, and the Cudgel
A tailor's three sons each receive a magic gift from a grateful master — two are stolen by a dishonest innkeeper before the third sets everything right.
One-Eye, Two-Eyes, and Three-Eyes
A perfectly ordinary girl is mocked and starved by her unusual sisters for having just two eyes — until a small kindness to a hungry goat changes her fortune.
King Thrushbeard's Lesson
A proud princess mocks every suitor who comes to ask for her hand — until her own father marries her off to the very beggar she insulted, with a lesson attached.
Snow White and Rose Red
Two gentle sisters shelter a bear through the winter and repeatedly help a rude, ungrateful dwarf who curses them every single time — for reasons that only become clear later.
The Goose Girl at the Well
A princess traveling to marry a foreign prince is betrayed by her own maid and forced into a servant's life under a false name — until her honesty to a stranger unravels the theft.
The Spirit in the Bottle
A poor student frees a powerful spirit trapped beneath a tree root — only to learn the spirit was promising a reward to no one for a very long time.
Doctor Know-All
A poor peasant, through nothing but a lucky string of coincidences, convinces an entire court he's a brilliant fortune-teller — terrified the whole time of being found out.
The Devil's Three Golden Hairs
A boy born with a rare stroke of luck is marked from birth to marry a princess — and a jealous king spends years trying and failing to have him quietly removed.
The Twelve Brothers and the Silent Sister
Twelve brothers vanish into an enchanted forest the moment their sister is born — and years later, one small mistake turns them all into ravens she must save in complete silence.
Little Farmer's Clever Cons
A poor, sharp-witted farmer tricks a village of wealthier neighbors again and again — and when they try to copy his tricks against him, their own greed does the rest.
The Wren's War Against the Beasts
A bear mocks a tiny wren's family as insignificant — and finds himself facing a full-scale war organized by every bird in the forest.
The Three Spinners
A girl who hates spinning gets unexpected help from three oddly deformed old women — on one condition that turns out to free her forever.
Clever Elsie's Imaginary Disaster
Sent to fetch beer from the cellar, a young woman spots a pickaxe on the wall and begins weeping over a tragedy that hasn't happened to a child she doesn't have yet.
Thumbling's Big Adventures
A boy no bigger than a thumb turns out to have exactly the right size for getting into — and cleverly back out of — trouble no ordinary child could survive.
Hans My Hedgehog
Born half-hedgehog, half-boy and shunned by his own father, Hans leaves home to make his own way in the world atop a rooster, playing bagpipes for company.
The Old Grandfather and His Grandson
A trembling old grandfather, no longer able to eat neatly, is banished to eat alone in the corner — until his own grandson teaches the whole family something.
The Giant Turnip and the Greedy Brother
A poor farmer gifts the king his finest, most enormous turnip and is generously rewarded — so his wealthy, greedy brother tries to top it, with a very different result.
The Seven Ravens and Their Sister
A father's careless curse turns his seven sons into ravens the day their sister is born — and only she can undo it, at a cost she never expected to pay.
The Master Thief's Three Impossible Tests
A famously skilled thief returns home years later and, to avoid punishment, agrees to prove himself through three impossible thefts instead.
The Glass Coffin in the Forest
A lost young tailor follows a golden ring to an enchanted castle, where a woman lies frozen in a glass coffin under a curse only real courage can break.
The Wonderful Musician
A traveling violinist, alone in a dangerous forest, is threatened one by one by a wolf, a fox, and a hare — and outsmarts each with nothing but promises and a fiddle.
The Pot of Sweet Porridge
A poor girl is given a magic pot that cooks sweet porridge on command and stops on command — but her mother forgets the second half of that instruction.
The Old Woman in the Forest
Abandoned alone in a forest by robbers, a poor servant girl is fed and guided by a small white dove — on one quiet condition she must never break.
The Queen Bee's Memory
Two older princes mock the small creatures they meet on their journey, while their youngest brother stops to help — and only kindness turns out to break the castle's curse.
The Golden Bird and the Wise Fox
A garden loses its golden apples nightly to a mysterious bird, and only the youngest prince, the one who actually listens to a talking fox, ever completes the quest.
The Six Servants and the Impossible Tasks
A prince hoping to win a sorceress-princess's hand faces a string of deliberately impossible tasks — and survives only because of six oddly gifted companions he gathered along the way.