Wonder Tales

Illustrated Folktales and Fairy Tales

Wonder Tales is one of the libraries of WonderBooks — illustrated classic tales and stories, each told in ~10 illustrated pages with narration. There's a free library you can read without paying.

All 60 Wonder Tales stories

• Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (kids)
  A poor young man, a cave of treasure, and a lamp with a mighty spirit inside
• Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp (kids)
  A poor young man, a cave of treasure, and a lamp with a mighty spirit inside
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (kids)
  A secret word, a cave of treasure, and a servant girl cleverer than a whole band of robbers
• Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (kids)
  A secret word, a cave of treasure, and a servant girl cleverer than a whole band of robbers
• Anansi the Spider (kids)
  How all the stories in the world came to belong to a spider
• Bluebeard (kids)
  A rich lord with a strange blue beard, one small forbidden key, and the wife who opened it anyway
• Brother and Sister (kids)
  A boy turned into a roe deer by an enchanted stream, and the sister who never let him go
• Cinderella (kids)
  A kind girl, a lost glass slipper, and a kingdom searched door to door
• Clever Gretel (kids)
  A cook, two roast fowls, and the supper that never quite arrived
• Diamonds and Toads (kids)
  A kind word drops jewels, an unkind word drops toads, and the same spring tests two sisters
• Dick Whittington and His Cat (kids)
  A poor boy, a clever cat, and the bells that called him home to London
• Doctor Know-All (kids)
  A poor woodcutter, a load of firewood, and a sign that turned him into the cleverest doctor in the land
• Faithful John (kids)
  A servant's promise, a forbidden door, and the price of saving a king three times over
• Hans in Luck (kids)
  A lump of gold, five trades, and a man who comes home with nothing and calls himself the luckiest man alive
• Hansel and Gretel (kids)
  Two children, a trail of white pebbles, and a little house made of sweets
• Henny Penny (kids)
  An acorn, a hen who did not look up, and five birds on the road to tell the king
• Iron Hans (kids)
  A wild man found at the bottom of a pond, a boy whose hair turns to gold, and the cap he wears until the day it comes off
• Issun-boshi, the One-Inch Boy (kids)
  A rice bowl for a boat, a needle for a sword, and a long way to the capital
• Jack and the Beanstalk (kids)
  Five beans, a ladder into the clouds, and a boy who climbed it
• King Thrushbeard (kids)
  A proud princess, the suitor she mocked, and the three trades she could not learn
• Little Ida's Flowers (kids)
  A night when the flowers on her windowsill got up from their vase and danced across the nursery floor
• Little Red Riding Hood (kids)
  A path through the wood, a basket for grandmother, and a stranger who asked where she lived
• Little Thumbling (kids)
  The smallest of seven brothers, a trail of white pebbles, and a pair of seven-league boots
• Momotaro, the Peach Boy (kids)
  A boy found inside a peach, three companions won with a dumpling, and the island of the ogres
• Patient Griselda (kids)
  A marquis who tested his wife's patience past all reason, and the wife who never broke
• Pinocchio (kids)
  A wooden puppet who tells lies, learns to love, and longs to become a real boy
• Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Pari Banou (kids)
  A Sultan's challenge, three magical treasures, and a love found in an enchanted land
• Puss in Boots (kids)
  A poor miller's son, a clever cat in fine boots, and a castle won by wits
• Rapunzel (kids)
  A girl in a doorless tower, a braid of golden hair, and a love that finds its way
• Riquet with the Tuft (kids)
  An ugly prince with a gift for wit, and the clever princess who learned to see him clearly
• Sinbad the Sailor (kids)
  Seven wild voyages across far seas — a whale that was an island, a bird as big as a cloud, and a valley full of diamonds
• Sleeping Beauty (kids)
  A christening curse, a hidden spindle, and a castle asleep for a hundred years
• Snow White (kids)
  A kind princess, a jealous queen's mirror, seven little miners, and a poisoned apple
• The Boy Who Cried Wolf (kids)
  Twice for a joke, and once because it was true
• The Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear (kids)
  A young man who felt no fear at all, three nights alone in a haunted castle, and the bucket of little fish that finally taught him to shudder
• The Brave Little Tailor (kids)
  A little tailor, a boastful belt, and a world that believed every word of it
• The Crane Wife (kids)
  A crane freed from a snare, a woman at a loom, and the one door that was not to be opened
• The Firebird (kids)
  A stolen golden apple, a feather of fire, and the youngest son who rode the longest road
• The Fisherman and the Genie (kids)
  Four casts of a net, a brass jar sealed with lead, and one very good question
• The Gingerbread Man (kids)
  Run, run, as fast as you can — and the fox who did not have to run at all
• The Lion and the Mouse (kids)
  A small kindness that nobody thought would ever be needed
• The Little Mermaid (kids)
  A mermaid who gave up the sea for love, and found a gentler destiny in the sky
• The Monkey King (kids)
  A monkey born out of a stone, a staff from the bottom of the sea, and five hundred years under a mountain
• The Musicians of Bremen (kids)
  Four old animals, turned out by their masters, who never reached Bremen but found something better instead
• The Nutcracker (kids)
  A wooden soldier with a broken jaw, a king of mice with seven heads, and a journey through a coat sleeve
• The Nutcracker (kids)
  A wooden soldier with a broken jaw, a king of mice with seven heads, and a journey through a coat sleeve
• The Old Man and His Grandson (kids)
  A trembling bowl, a wooden trough, and the small boy who taught his parents what waited for them too
• The Peasant and the Devil (kids)
  A buried pot of gold, a two-year bargain over what grows above and below the ground, and a devil who never learns
• The Riddle (kids)
  A poisoned drink meant for a prince, the riddle it made, and the proud princess who could not guess it
• The Shoes That Were Danced to Pieces (kids)
  Twelve princesses, one locked door, and the soldier who followed them down a stairway under the floor
• The Storks (kids)
  A mocking song, a nest on a chimney, and the secret pond where every baby brother and sister waits
• The Table, the Donkey and the Stick (kids)
  A tailor's three sons, three magic gifts, and the innkeeper who tried to steal them all
• The Tiger, the Brahmin and the Jackal (kids)
  A cage opened out of kindness, three witnesses who all said the same thing, and one jackal who could not follow the argument
• The Tortoise and the Hare (kids)
  The fastest runner in the forest meets the slowest — and learns, the hard way, that slow and steady wins the race
• The Town Musicians of Bremen (kids)
  A donkey, a dog, a cat and a rooster, all grown old, set off to make music — and find a home and friendship instead
• The Valiant Little Tailor (kids)
  Seven flies killed at one blow, three tricks played on a giant, and a belt that talked a little man all the way to a throne
• The Voyages of Sinbad (kids)
  The second of his seven voyages — the sleeping giant bird, its egg like a white dome, and the valley where diamonds lie among serpents
• The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids (kids)
  A mother goat's warning, a wolf with three disguises, and a rescue with scissors and stones
• Thousandfurs (kids)
  A princess who fled her father in a coat sewn from every animal's fur, and the king who found her ring in his bread
• Thumbelina (kids)
  A girl no bigger than a thumb, a long journey through toad, beetle and winter, and a kindness that carries her home

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