Anna Walter Thomas

Rachel Lawrence

"If you have not guessed my name by month's end, then you shall be mine!" In this classic English folktale, the heroine eats too many pies, which leads to a misunderstanding and her marriage to a King who only wants her for her skills as a spinster! Desperate to save her life, she makes a deal with a diminutive, magical creature. Can she guess the name of her helper in time? Or will he succeed in claiming her as his own? The sequel, The Gipsy Woman, is set a year later and finds the Queen once more charged with the task of spinning five skeins, daily, for a month. Help arrives in the form of a gipsy woman but can she be trusted? This book contains two versions of each tale: one in modern-day English, and the other, as told originally, in the dialect of East Anglia. [Folklore Type: ATU-500 (The Name of the Helper) & ATU-501 (The Three Spinners)]

The English 'Rumpelstiltskin' Folktale

Tom Tit Tot and Sequel

Hans Andersen

"More and more, she came to love humans; more and more, she wished she could rise up among them." The youngest daughter of the Sea King cannot wait to be old enough to go to the surface and see the world of humans. Her first visit there changes her life forever when she saves a prince from drowning, and comes to love him above all others. For the chance to win his love and gain an immortal soul, the little sea princess is willing to risk everything... First published in 1837, Hans Christian Andersen's haunting tale of love is brought to an English readership in this illustrated and unabridged edition, which has been translated directly from the original Danish into English and includes illustrations by Ivan Bilibin.

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