CINDERELLA

Cinderella, the beautiful and kind-hearted daughter, sees her

world turn upside down when her beloved mother dies, and her
pained father remarries another woman, the wicked Lady
Tremaine, who has two equally cruel daughters, the jealous
Anastasia and Drizella. But, once more, things will go from bad
to worse, When Cinderella's father, too, dies, leaving her all
alone in the Lady's clutches to serve as her maid-of-all-work.
Under those circumstances, a shabby and neglected Cinderella
doesn't stand much of a chance of attending the King's royal
ball--let alone, captivate the handsome Prince--unless she turns
to her loving Fairy Godmother who has quite a few tricks up her
sleeve. Nevertheless, will the wronged damsel ever find peace--
and with it--her own Prince Charming ?
 SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

A beautiful but orphaned princess, Snow White, lives with her

stepmother, the wicked Queen, who previously relegated her to
servitude. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known
as "the fairest in the land" when Snow White's beauty surpasses
her own. A prince passes by, hearing Snow White's singing, and
falls immediately in love with her and her beauty. Witnessing
this, the Queen summons her loyal huntsman to take Snow
White into the forest and kill her, but he cannot bring himself to
do so because of her innocence and beauty, and instead begs
Snow White to run away into the forest and never return to the
castle. The forest animals befriend Snow White and take her to a
cottage, where seven dwarfs live. The dwarfs grow to love their
unexpected visitor, who cleans their house and cooks their
meals. But one day while the dwarfs are away at their diamond
mine, the Queen arrives at the cottage disguised as an old
peddler woman and persuades Snow White to take a bite of a
poisoned apple, promising her it will make all her dreams come
true. Snow White wishes for a reunion with the prince, takes a
bite, falls into a deep sleep, and the peddler woman declares
she's now the fairest in the land. The dwarfs, alerted by the
forest animals, rush home to chase the witch away and she falls
to her death, but they are too late to save Snow White. Thinking
her dead, too, the dwarfs place Snow White in a glass and gold
coffin in the woods and mourn for her. The prince, who had
searched far and wide for Snow White, hears of Snow White
asleep in the glass coffin and awakens her with love's first kiss
 BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

The fairytale of the beauty and the beast starts with a young
girl who lived with her father and two sisters. They lived a good
life in a big house but due to some unfortunate turn of events her
father lost all his money. They were forced to move into a
smaller house. The two sisters kept on grieving for their former
life and Beauty maintained her sadness for herself and tried her
best to help her family.
One day the father found out there is a slight chance he could
get back a part of his fortune when one of the ships got back.
The two sisters started to demand all sorts of thing and beauty
just wanted her father to come back safe. He persuaded her to
tell him what she wanted and in the end she asked him for a
single rose.
On his way home, the father got lost and wandered into a castle.
He was getting ready to leave when he saw beautiful roses and
he picked one. In that moment the beast caught him and the
father, begging for his life, said the rose was for his daughter.
The beast let him go under the condition of him sending one of
his daughters to the castle but the daughter had to want to come.
On his way home he didn’t want to tell Beauty what happened
but she found out and accepted to go to the castle. When they
came to the castle the beast asked whether the girl came by her
own will and both of them be affirmed she did. The beast
banished the father and told him never to come back again.
Beauty’s life was pleasant. She had her room and she was
served. The beast never appeared. Beauty only heard his voice.
As time passed by they started enjoying each other’s company.
The beast showed himself in the garden one night and he scared
her a bit. He wanted to hide again but Beauty couldn’t listen to
the sadness in his voice so she told him that she wanted to see
him again. After a while, Beauty started missing her father and
Beast granted her one visit to her father after they found out he
was ill.
While she was taking care of her father the time flew by and she
had a dream about Beast dying. Before she left his palace he
gave her a ring and told her she only needed to put it on her
finger when she wanted to come back and that she would awake
in the palace. When she came back to the palace she found the
beast ill in his bed. She didn’t want him to die and she told him
she’ll marry him.
Beast disappeared all of the sudden and its place was taken by a
beautiful prince. He told her all about a fairy enchanting him and
how the spell could have only been broken by a girl falling in
love with him. After her father got better they threw a wedding
and then they all lived happily ever after.

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

First, a very short summary of the plot of the Jack and the
beanstalk tale (or a refresher for those who are some way out of
the nursery). Jack is a young and rather reckless boy who lives
with his widowed mother. They become increasingly poor –
thanks partly to Jack’s own carelessness – until the day comes
when all they have left is a cow, which Jack’s mother tells him
to take to the market to sell for money. Unfortunately, while on
his way into town, Jack meets a bean dealer who says he will
pay Jack a hat full of magic beans for the cow.
Jack, delighted to have been made an offer on the cow before
he’s even reached the market, lives up to his reckless reputation
once again and agrees to the deal. He returns home with no cow
and no money and only a hat full of beans to show for the
journey; his mother, needless to say, is less than happy with this
outcome, and hurls the beans out into the garden in her anger.
They both retire to bed without having eaten, as they have no
food left.
However, when Jack wakes the next morning, he finds that the
magic beans scattered across the garden have grown into a giant
beanstalk outside his window. He promptly climbs it – as you do
– and finds a whole new land at the top. Wandering among this
land, Jack comes upon a huge castle and sneaks his way inside.
The giant, who owns the castle, returns home and smells Jack,
proclaiming: ‘Fee-fi-fo-fum! I smell the blood of an English
man: Be he alive, or be he dead, I’ll grind his bones to make my
bread.’ Jack steals a sack of gold from the giant’s castle before
swiftly making his escape back down the beanstalk.

GOLDILOCKS

In the kitchen, on the table, there are three bowls of

porridge. As she’s hungry – all that poking about in other
people’s homes is hard work – she tries the porridge in one of
the bowls. It’s too hot, so she moves on and tries the next bowl.
The porridge is too cold. So she then tries the third bowl, and
this porridge is just the right temperature. So she polishes off the
whole bowl.
(This aspect of the tale – this state of something being ‘just
right’ – has inspired scientists to name the area in a star system
in which planets are neither too hot nor too cold the ‘Goldilocks
zone’. We, for instance, are in the Goldilocks zone of our own
solar system: Venus or Mars either side of us would be too hot
or too cold respectively to support complex life.)
Having eaten the bowl of porridge, Goldilocks walks through to
the living room, where there are three chairs. She tries sitting in
each of them. The first is too big, as is the second, but the third
is just the right size. However, it’s a small chair and Goldilocks
manages to break it by sitting in it. So we can add destruction of
property to the list of growing charges.
Rather than fleeing the house before she can do any more
damage, Goldilocks ventures upstairs into the bedroom, where
there are three beds. She tries lying on the first, but it’s too hard.
The second, by contrast, is too soft. But the third is just right. So
she promptly falls asleep in it.

As she’s sleeping there in the

bed, the three bears – Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear –
come home. The mum and dad moan about someone having
eaten their porridge, and their young offspring points out that his
porridge hasn’t just been tasted, but whoever tasted it has eaten
the whole lot.
They then find their chairs – the parents can tell that someone’s
been sitting in their chairs, but it’s all too obvious from the
broken chair that someone’s had a go in Baby Bear’s. Then they
go up to the bedroom, where Mama and Papa Bear spot that
someone’s been in their beds. And Baby Bear sees the same –
but the guilty trespasser is still in his bed, fast asleep!
When Baby Bear shouts out in surprise, Goldilocks wakes up in
a fright and runs downstairs and out of the house, and never
returns to the bears’ house. And that, in summary, is the story of
Goldilocks and the three bears.

THUMBELINA

Born of a flower and growing to only a couple of inches tall,

poor Thumbelina (Jodi Benson) is worried she'll never meet
someone her own size, until she happens to catch the eye of
Prince Cornelius of the Fairies (Gary Imhoff). Just as soon as
she finds love, however, it's torn away from her when she is
kidnapped by Ms. Toad (Charo). Now Thumbelina has to escape
Ms. Toad's grasp and search for Prince Cornelius. Luckily,
there's a whole city of animals willing to help her
 PINNOCCHIO
When the woodworker Geppetto (Christian Rub) sees a falling
star, he wishes that the puppet he just finished, Pinocchio
(Dickie Jones), could become a real boy. In the night, the Blue
Fairy (Evelyn Venable) grants Geppetto's wish and asks Jiminy
Cricket (Cliff Edwards) to serve as the wooden boy's
conscience. But the naive and trusting Pinocchio falls into the
clutches of the wicked Honest John (Walter Catlett), who leads
him astray to the sinful Pleasure Island.
 SLEEPING BEAUTY

Filled with jealousy, the evil witch Maleficent (Eleanor

Audley) curses Princess Aurora (Mary Costa) to die on her 16th
birthday. Thanks to Aurora's guardian fairies (Verna Felton,
Barbara Jo Allen, Barbara Luddy), she only falls into a deep
sleep that can be ended with a kiss from her betrothed, Prince
Phillip (Bill Shirley). To prevent Phillip from rescuing Aurora,
Maleficent kidnaps and imprisons him. The good fairies are the
last hope to free Phillip so that he can awaken Aurora.
 RUMPELSTILTSKIN

. A miller has a beautiful daughter, of whom he is immensely

proud. One day, the miller makes an empty boast to the king of
the land that his daughter can spin gold out of straw; the king,
taking the miller at his word, has the miller’s daughter taken to a
chamber and told to spin all of the straw in the room into gold, if
she values her life.
Just as the poor girl is beginning to despair, the door opens and a
little man enters the chamber. She explains her predicament to
him, and he says he will spin the straw into gold for her, if she
gives him a gift. She takes off her necklace and the little man
takes it, and, true to his word, spins all of the straw in the
chamber into gold, and then leaves.
The king is delighted to see this, but because he is greedy, he
locks the miller’s daughter up again with more straw. Once
again the little man appears, and agrees to do the same as before,
but in exchange for a new gift. The miller’s daughter gives him
the ring on her finger, and he starts spinning the straw for her.
Once more, the king is delighted, but, growing greedier still,
locks her up again, this time in a bigger room. Once again, the
mysterious dwarf-like man appears, and agrees to help her out in
exchange for another gift. But the miller’s daughter, having
nothing left to offer, agrees to give the little man her first-born
child when she is queen. Knowing she cannot succeed without
his help, she reluctantly agrees.
The king is so pleased with all of the gold that he marries the
miller’s daughter. When she gives birth to her first child, she
forgets her promise to the little man, who appears in her
chamber and reminds her of it. She begs him to release her from
her promise, but he refuses. Instead, he says that if she can guess
his name in the next three days, he will let her keep her child.
The queen sends out her messengers to see if anyone knows the
little man’s name, but after the first day, they return
unsuccessful.
The same occurs on the second day. But on the third day, one of
her messengers reports that he overheard a funny-looking little
man dancing with glee around a fire, and in his song he let slip
that his name is Rumpel-stilts-kin. When the little man returns to
the queen on the third night, she tells him his name, and in his
rage at being thwarted, he puts his foot through the floor and
promptly splits in two. Everyone lives happily ever after (except
Rumpelstiltskin, who was divided over the issue).

THE EMPERORS NEW CLOTHES

Once upon a time, there was an Emperor who was only

interested in good clothes. He was so in love with it that he did
not care much for anything else. One day a few conmen
appeared and told him that they were excellent weavers and that
they could make the most beautiful fabric in the world. It didn’t
take long to get the Emperor’s attention. They told him they
made fabrics of wonderful samples and colors with a specific
feature. They were invisible to anyone who was stupid or
incapable of doing his job.
The conmen ordered some of the finest materials and secretly
they sold them to get the money. To fool the Emperor and his
servants they started to weave but there was nothing. The
Emperor sent him most loyal servants to check up on them.
When they saw that they can’t see the alleged fabric they were
scared that they’ll get fired for being stupid or incompetent to do
their jobs. That is the reason why they lied that they saw magical
fabrics.
In the end, the Emperor decided together with many helpers see
the fabrics and see how the weavers work was going. Everyone
who accompanied him was afraid to come off as a stupid person
so they admired the fabric that wasn’t there and advised the
Emperor to put that nothing on himself. The conmen showed
him the cape, pants, and the coat but they were actually empty-
handed.
The Emperor took all the clothes off of himself and the conmen
dressed him in the invisible clothes. The Emperor started a
procession where his servants walked behind him with their
hands raised to hold the cape. Everyone admired him and his
new clothes until one boy yelled that the Emperor had no clothes
on.

NOVELETTE:
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA BY HEMINGWAY
 On the eighty-fifth day of his unlucky streak, Santiago does as
promised, sailing his skiff far beyond the island’s shallow
coastal waters and venturing into the Gulf Stream. He prepares
his lines and drops them. At noon, a big fish, which he knows is
a marlin, takes the bait that Santiago has placed one hundred
fathoms deep in the waters. The old man expertly hooks the fish,
but he cannot pull it in. Instead, the fish begins to pull the boat.
Unable to tie the line fast to the boat for fear the fish would snap
a taut line, the old man bears the strain of the line with his
shoulders, back, and hands, ready to give slack should the
marlin make a run. The fish pulls the boat all through the day,
through the night, through another day, and through another
night. It swims steadily northwest until at last it tires and swims
east with the current. The entire time, Santiago endures constant
pain from the fishing line. Whenever the fish lunges, leaps, or
makes a dash for freedom, the cord cuts Santiago badly.
Although wounded and weary, the old man feels a deep empathy
and admiration for the marlin, his brother in suffering, strength,
and resolve.
On the third day the fish tires, and Santiago, sleep-deprived,
aching, and nearly delirious, manages to pull the marlin in close
enough to kill it with a harpoon thrust. Dead beside the skiff, the
marlin is the largest Santiago has ever seen. He lashes it to his
boat, raises the small mast, and sets sail for home. While
Santiago is excited by the price that the marlin will bring at
market, he is more concerned that the people who will eat the
fish are unworthy of its greatness.
As Santiago sails on with the fish, the marlin’s blood leaves a
trail in the water and attracts sharks. The first to attack is a great
mako shark, which Santiago manages to slay with the harpoon.
In the struggle, the old man loses the harpoon and lengths of
valuable rope, which leaves him vulnerable to other shark
attacks. The old man fights off the successive vicious predators
as best he can, stabbing at them with a crude spear he makes by
lashing a knife to an oar, and even clubbing them with the boat’s
tiller. Although he kills several sharks, more and more appear,
and by the time night falls, Santiago’s continued fight against
the scavengers is useless. They devour the marlin’s precious
meat, leaving only skeleton, head, and tail. Santiago chastises
himself for going “out too far,” and for sacrificing his great and
worthy opponent. He arrives home before daybreak, stumbles
back to his shack, and sleeps very deeply.