Two tales at random
Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm
A tailor believes his goat when she says his three sons have left her hungry, and drives the boys away. Each learns a trade and receives a magical gift: a table that serves food, a donkey that...
Read on — The Wishing-Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack →Hans Christian Andersen
On New Year’s Eve, a little girl tries to sell matches in the street. No one buys any. She is hungry and freezing, but she is afraid to go home without money because her father would beat her. To warm...
Read on — The Little Match Girl →